PARTICIPATION OF THE DISCIPLINES FROM THE AREA OF ADMINISTRATION IN BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT BACHELOR'S COURSE CURRICULUM

ABSTRACT

In the last years, Environmental Management (EM) courses have come to form a new class of manager that, in theory, are able to administrate issues related to the environment. Although they have been around for more than a decade, such courses are little known in terms of curricular structure and don't have National Curriculum Guidelines. The discussion about the formation of Brazilian environmental managers could contribute to placing the EM course in the context of constructing the identity of this new professional category. This study proposes to pull up the disciplines present in the curricular matrices for EM bachelor's courses, aiming to identify the weights in various areas of knowledge, especially, in the area of administration for the construction of this new class of professional, inferring about the conception of the Curricular Matrix structures of such courses. The methodological procedure adopted was the analysis of the documentary content which consisted in verifying the content of the curricular menus and matrices contained in the pedagogical project policies (PPP) of the EM courses. Despite the multi-disciplinary character of the course, we observed significant participation from the Administration disciplines in training Brazilian environmental managers, confirmed in the discursive content verification of the PPP that present the Environmental Manager as an environmental Administrator. Such statement lacks other more profound studies about the issue of power disputes in the EM field of training.

Keywords:
Environment; Environmental Manager; National Curriculum Guidelines; Professional Identity