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| Roese, M.W.V. | |
| Educa‡Æo ambiental dial¢gico-cr¡tica e a conserva‡Æo da biodiversidade no entorno de reas protegidas | |
| 2014 Full Book | |
The aim of this study was to comprehend limits and potentials of developing environmental education programs for top predator conservation in the surroundings of protected areas located in SÆo Paulo state, Brazil. The process of data collection and analysis involved people with different connections with the studied subject and that have historical roles associated to the transformation of this context, according to critical communicative methodology. We identified the potentialities of protected areas located in the Northeast of SÆo Paulo State (SP) to promote educational actions focused on puma conservation, based on structured interviews. Then, we conducted communicative focus groups and communicatiev interviews with educators, employees, researchers, managers, students, rural landowner and rural worker involved in different ways with the topic of biodiversity conservation in and in the surroundings of Ecological and Experimental Station of Itirapina (SP). As main results, we identified the existence of educational actions facing on the involvement of local community that are performed or could be performed in the protected areas of Northeast of SÆo Paulo State. We highlight the importance of considering adulthood characteristics and personal and job motivations for planning an educational process with adults that could bring transformations for biodiversity conservation and improve the life quality in the surroundings of protected areas. Besides, we indicated that interactions between humans and predators needs to be faced in its complexity, understanding the position of each people or group in relation to conflicts and promoting a dialogue between academic and popular knowledge to seek effective and long-term solutions. Finally, we recognized that the topic of puma conservation might be associated with other interests and demands of local community to be broadly approached and in a manner that promote new forms of knowing, valuing and acting for biodiversity. Yet, we present some methodological considerations and approximate the principles of dialogical learning and of critical environmental education. |
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