Abstract:
We believe that activities that promote an understanding of how different modes of production and culture affect the environment and the people who live together on this planet can help to improve the creation of socio-environmentally fair societies rather than hiding socio-environmental conflicts. The school is identified as a privileged space for this effort, and we aim to understand the potential and limits of people seeking wellness in society by examining the discourses of young students in basic education in activities involving socio-environmental issues. Students experienced different social roles through dramatized and debated characters and situations. Results indicate that there may be possibilities in the motion of discourses between stable ideological formations and everyday conversations, including the decolonization of knowledge, which implies a break of the generic and abstract interpretations of reality, as well as the interrelationship between knowledge, values, and participation, to overcome subjectivism and objectivity views regarding this issue.
Keywords:
Environmental education; Basic education; Theatre-action; Discourse analysis; Decolonization of knowledge