Sustentabilidade social e cultural da política de Educação Ambiental: um estudo de caso no programa social e ambiental dos igarapés de Manaus-Am

Abstract

When considering the global context, it is becoming more and more like those that claim the socio-environmental sustainability of thinking about new paradigms of societies that contemplate sustainability, the aim of reaching objectives, indicators, public policies to mitigate the impacts of the socio-environmental issue and contribute to achieve sustainability. Inserted in this discussion space, Brazil has participated as a signatory of events that discuss the socio-environmental theme, thus being led to propose and execute public policies that respond to the demands of the "socio-environmental crisis", among which, environmental education as one of the important instruments for this process. In order to contribute to this debate, the research that originated this dissertation had as its general objective to analyze the social and cultural sustainability of the Environmental Education Policy set forth in Law 9.795 / 1999, as a cut off from the Program Social and Environmental the Rives of Manaus - PROSAMIM. Considering the scope of the proposed results, a qualitative approach, without detracting, however, quantitative aspects necessary, parameterized in bibliographical, documentary and field research, whose design was based on a case study having specifically as locus the eight residential parks of the Program Social and Environmental the Rives of Manaus, located in the geographical area of the city of Manaus / AM, that includes the Basin of Educandos - BHE. From a sample of 44 subjects, of whom 04 represented by professionals who contribute to the development of environmental education actions in the Program in question, and 40 beneficiaries residing in the area of analysis, more specifically 5 residents of each park of different families. It was possible to identify that the perspective of sustainability present in the national policy of environmental education is critical, respecting all the conceptions that approach it, but it is necessary to know the perspective of working in a given context in order not to incur mechanization and generalization of actions making it impossible to be effective, as well as, it was verified that the social sustainability of environmental education in the Program in question, has focused mainly on the process of encouraging the social participation of residents, however, from the result of the study it was possible to observe that it is necessary to broaden the vision of participation, with the intention that it may contribute to the strengthening of citizenship and social justice in a really critical way. As far as cultural sustainability is concerned, this has in turn been focused on the Program based on the commemoration of dates that contemplate the ecological aspect, emphasizing the need also for clarity regarding the understanding of the sense of culture, as a process of knowledge exchange that consider the subjectivity of the subjects, and their life trajectory, contributing for the target audience to identify themselves with the developed actions and thus are collectively participants as subjects of rights of the process of social transformation and confrontation of the social-environmental question.