Educação ambiental em espaços não-escolarizados : um estudo na comunidade pantaneira de Barra do Aricá, Santo Antônio de Leverger, MT

Abstract

The interpretations of the social relations are marking links for the development of a sensetized society about the ambient questions. This project is an exercise of learning and interpretations of the experience of the marginal human been of the average Cuiabá river, in the locality of “Barra do Aricá”. This community belongs to the city of Saint Antonio de Leverger, MT, located the 30 km far away the, Cuiabá. The initial landmark of this project is understand the relations between the members of this community and their environments, on the basis of the constructed process of not-scholar education with the accumulated knowledge and that it is given just from the family. Seeing this the another way , it is important to know their activities. To understand how knowing instituited and the ambient slight knowledge that happen daily in the community of “Barra do Aricá”, the qualitative methodology with boarding in the ethnographic way was used. This project was lead by a period of 12 months (May of 2004 until May of 2005), when monthly incursions was making in the community, confection of daily of field, photoghrafics files, interviews records and also informal contacts, these last ones aiming at to facilitate, to follow, to witness and to live deeply the daily one of the community. It arrives in port it theoretical used for the research contributed for reading and the understanding of the facts that was talked, what it assisted to better elucidate the concepts on the ambient education in not-scholar spaces. The project shows and portraies, in the results concerning the daily in of the community of “Barra do Aricá”, the necessity of an envolvement and compromising on the part of excessively involved educators and with the question, the necessity to reconstruct the link between the not-scholar knowledge and the scholar one. Its important contribution was to show that all the type of educative manifestation in spaces not-scholar in a pantaneira community cannot be lost. This type of culture cannot only be understood as an empirical knowledge, is more than this, is one to know repassed of father for son, grandfather for grandsons and thus for many generations, aspect that propitiates to the members of the community the conservation and the care with the environment. The forms as not-scholar knowing if process are presented and analyzed to the light of the manifestations in the daily activities: it fishes it, the river, the religious, flora, fauna, parties and the detected common tricks.