As ressignificações metodológicas da cartografia do imaginário nas pesquisas em educação ambiental

Abstract

This study focuses on research methodology in Environmental Education, with special consideration to Cartography of the Imaginary, which was published in 2011 by professor and researcher Michèle Sato. Considering the 80 dissertations (Master and PhD) present in the database of theses on the GPEA blog, the vast majority relates to phenomenology. On light of these phenomenological research, 26 studies have already been completed and 11 are in progress (a total of 37 works) through the “Cartography of the Imaginary”, a methodology inspired by the essence of Gaston Bachelard. The elements water, earth, fire, and air are the phenomenological substrates for most of the scientific investigations built in the GPEA. I sought to understand how the methodology was re-created by each researcher based on his or her own way of think, act and feel the phenomenological investigation. Keeping the principles of phenomenology, each researcher must reframe the paths of praxis and epistemology, in dialogues with the thematic approach, specific talents in the areas of knowledge, procedures and other plots that are in line with the cartography of the imaginary. In addition to studying these works, I conducted 8 interviews with students who had already completed their research. The results reveal that the methodological reframing, with its own innovation, is simultaneously laborious and pleasurable: difficult because it requires reinvention; but for that very reason beautiful, because it is rebuilt in resonance with the oneiric dreams of each researcher. The details of the creation, feelings and rationales originated by the research are attributes discussed throughout the dissertation.