"A Terra a Quem Pertence?": caminhos para uma educação ambiental decolonial

Abstract

This dissertation results from a research accompanied by an educational process in the training of teachers and professors, putting into dialogue the socio-environmental and ethnic-racial issues. We present a view that presupposes that the process of colonial occupation, as well as its consequences in the coloniality of power, historically contributed to the construction of hegemonic ideologies, both among peoples as well as between people and nature. Thus, we consider that fighting and incorporating the discussion of the ethnic-racial issue into the socio-environmental one and vice versa, means understanding the exploitation of people and the environment as a result of an ideology reproduced mainly by the peoples of formerly colonized territories, evidencing a logic of domination, exploitation, subordination and a series of prejudices that are at the service of the capitalist mode of organization and production. Thus, with the aim of discussing the socio-environmental issue in relation to the ethnic-racial one, envisioning possibilities for the initial and continuing education of teachers, we organized and developed this work in two articles: the first consists of a theoretical essay where we seek foundations for understanding the theme; and the second, where we reflect, from an educational process developed in the Pedagogical Residency program, whose intention was to act in the initial and continued formation so that this group would appropriate the discussion that we proposed to do and, later, have the capacity to produce pedagogical practices and teaching materials conducive to the urgency of equity for the construction of an effectively sustainable society.