Educar na sociedade de risco: o desafio de construir alternativas

Abstract

The transformations towards a sustainable society are permeated by obstacles, due to a restricted conscience by society about the implications of the existing development model. The main causes that provoke ecological predatory activities can be attributed to the social institutions, to the information and communication systems and to the values adopted by society. The multiplication of risks - mainly the environmental and technological ones, of serious consequences -isa key element to understand the characteristics, the limits and the transformations of our modernity. The society, as a producer of risks, becomes increasingly reflexive, what implies saying that it becomes a theme and a problem for itself. The global reflexive society is urged to confront itself with what it has created, be it positive or negative. In this text, the considerations on "risk society" allow us to establish links with the complex theme that permeates the relations between environment and education, from some parameters that are present in the practices oriented towards an "education for sustainability", increasing the engagement of several systems of knowledge and the qualification of professionals and the academic community within an interdisciplinary perspective.