Formas de aprender em um mundo mais que humano : emaranhados de pessoas, coisas e instituições na ambientalização do contexto escolar

Abstract

This dissertation is an ethnography of two local networks in environmental education in southern Brazil: the Teia de Educação Ambiental da Mata Atlântica (rural) and the Rede de Educadores Ambientais de Porto Alegre (urban). The main focus of this study is to understand the ways of learning in a more than human world, resulting from the greening phenomenon within the school context in which collectives of humans and nonhuman agents are central. From a new materialist perspective in education, people, things and institutions entangle and produce knowledge as they move between the places they inhabit. By establishing a dialogue between the notions of network and meshwork and the agency and lives of people, things and institutions, this dissertation describes these groups, their institutional relations and their modes of political action and training order. Moreover, it takes into consideration places, bodies and things in their materiality in three case studies which exemplify ways of learning through the environmental education practices of networks: (1) the Environmental Atlas of Porto Alegre, (2) Nina, a character in a children s story and (3) Juçara, Açaí of the Atlantic Forest. Finally, by analyzing these local networks of environmental education in a more than human world, we propose that they can be understood as agents moving in environmental education meshworks.