Project Environmental Education and Training from Latin American Environmental Thought
Description
The academic spaces that we form constitute within our University various scenarios in which, in keeping with their specificity, we have fostered, both in classroom instances and in territorial experiences, the study and approach of environmental problems.
It is from these shared experiences that we present this proposal focused on the formulation of a continuous educational and training design, within the framework of Latin American Environmental Thought for sustainability and regional diversity.
In this context, (and as an initial stage of the program) the presentation of four academic and training proposals will take place:
● Graduate Seminar "Introduction to Latin American Environmental Thought."
● University Diploma "Environmental Education for Sustainability"
● Higher University Specialization "Environmental Education for Sustainability".
● Master "Environmental Education for Sustainability"
These proposals arise from the interpellation generated by the environmental crisis that we consider, as conceived by the Manifesto for Life (2002), as a "civilizing crisis". In this way, environmental knowledge becomes a suggestive horizon for the metaphorization of new social representations of the world and existential meanings. In this sense, each of our curricular designs poses the challenge of reimagining the educational dimension and the pedagogical proposal, taking environmental complexity as a significant magma, nesting of environmental pedagogy, as a hermeneutic atmosphere of the relationship Education, Environment, Original Cosmovisions, Popular Cultures, Health, Food Sovereignty.
In this line of reflection and action, it is considered essential to green the curriculum, advancing along the path of Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity and Interculturality, in order to redefine our pedagogical practices and to give rise to other rationalities that make possible the emergence of Knowledge. Environmental.
From this perspective, Environmental Education is a field under construction that questions the fragmentation promoted by Unsustainable Modernity and proposes the ecosystemic exploration of relationality, recreating hermeneutics from environmental complexity and linking this process, in the same deconstruction-construction movement. , as Prigogyne says with “a poetic listening to nature”.
Among the main purposes shared by the Education and Training instances presented, we propose:
*Consider Environmental Education from the perspective of Latin American Environmental Thought (PAL), as a space for approaching knowledge from a problematizing, critical and reflective horizon.
*Provide the conceptual and categorical frameworks on which the interpretation of the environmental crisis as a crisis of civilization is based.
* Problematize the forms of construction and legitimization of scientific knowledge in the face of emerging environmental challenges at a local and global level.
* Contribute to the construction of an environmental rationality of ethical-political, conceptual, categorical and methodological support.
*Promote practices in the educational field that respond to the construction of community projects that design and propose possible solutions to environmental conflicts in the places we inhabit.
*Address the study and understanding of the Environment from a holistic perspective, generating a synergy between nature, society, education and culture.
* Promote the development of proposals that contribute to the comprehensive training of students with a critical and reflective vision of the socio-historical, political, cultural and economic context in which they live and work.
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Director: Graciela Mandolini and Claudia Gotta
Members: Carlos Galano, Melina Gay, Claudia Nigro, María de las Mercedes Caila and Damián Verzeñassi.
Spaces / Institutions / Academic Units: Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEI-UNR), Socio-environmental Health Institute (FCM-UNR), Free Chair of Food Sovereignty – Agrotechnical School “Lib. Gral. San Martín” and Cátedra Libre “Knowledge, beliefs and struggles of native peoples” Faculty of Political Science and International Relations (FCPolyRRII-UNR).