O Círculo de Cultura na Educação de Jovens e Adultos: a abordagem freireana a partir de uma proposta de temática ambiental

Abstract

Environmental problems and their climate consequences are frequently reported in the media and are part of current debates in society. Therefore, it is necessary to qualify these dialogues so that social movements and governmental attitudes can emerge that produce a significant reduction in the degradation of the environment in which we live. In this sense, educational spaces, and in particular Youth and Adult Education (EJA) becomes a necessary space for debates and reflections on the possibilities of individual and collective action based on the process of understanding the current situation of the environment and forms of intervention. This study aimed to understand the contributions of Culture Circles to critical training on topics related to environmental issues, with students in the second segment of elementary school at a municipal school in Jataí. For thus purpose, we developed an Educational Product, characterized by a teaching sequence in the form of an approximation of the Culture Circle, based on Freirean pedagogy, which would make it possible to understand aspects of the local reality of students related to the environment in which they live for the survey of Generating Themes, which were problematized later. Paulo Freire's pedagogy in the assumptions of the Culture Circles became a plausible methodological proposal for the development of the Educational Product at EJA as it contemplates the collective dialogical and reflective process, which is necessary when debating issues involving environmental problems aimed at the reality of the student. We conclude that the environmental approach carried out with an related to proposal from the Culture Circle contributed to the teaching-learning process in order to overcome limit situations, being part of a construction towards the formation of critical consciousness.