Environmental education from the perspective of anthropology and education

Abstract

To understanding the environmental education as a wide and involving movement, supported in a deep conception of otherness and collectivity directed to the citizenship, is an attempt of contributing with the discussion that comes consolidating for sometime in the context of the socialecologism and that fields of knowledge like the anthropology and the education can contribute with the depth and transversallity demanded by the topic. In that sense, sets out here a dialog between the anthropology and the education, taking as an empirical object the Juréia's Inhabitants Union (UMJ) - collective movement around environmental rights, founded in 1990 in the State of São Paulo. The objective of the debate, here proposed, is to present a reflection, still preliminary, on how political projects and collective actions can be given from a new and wide sense of environmental citizenship.