The Environmental Thematic and the Educational Process in the Agora group's research: a trajectory of three decades

Abstract

The text reports the trajectory and presents an overview of the Agora Research Group productions, in three decades of participation in the debate on meanings built on the relationship between the educational process and the environmental theme. Studies were produced on pedagogical practices, conceptions and representations of nature and the environment, as well as analyzes and propositions in the subfield of public policies for EE. The group has developed State of the Art research projects, analyzing academic production in Environmental Education (EE). The works have emphasized the meaning of the educational process as a social practice, and Environmental Education as a practice for building democratic societies. Analyzes of research production in EE denote the centrality of the political dimension in pedagogical practices and knowledge production practices in the field.