SUSTENTABILIDADE EM TEMPOS ANTROPOCÊNICOS: UMA PROPOSTA DIDÁTICA DE ABORDAGEM SOCIAL E POLÍTICA DOS PROBLEMAS DE SUSTENTABILIDADE

Autores

  • Thomas Block Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Political Sciences, Ghent University
  • Erik Paredis Affiliation: Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Political Sciences, Ghent University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-293X
  • Peter van Aert Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0823-1888

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/10.23925/2179-3565.2020v11i4p200-220

Palavras-chave:

Sustentabilidade, Educação, Ciência pós-normal, Antropoceno, Pensamento latino-americano

Resumo

COVID-19 reafirma que vivemos as consequências do Antropoceno. Em termos de educação, esta afirmação tem implicações consideráveis: devemos superar as profundas divisões entre os campos das Ciências Naturais e das Ciências Sociais, reconhecendo ao mesmo tempo o caráter político das práticas educativas e científicas. Sustentabilidade é uma ideia que potencialmente incorpora os elementos que respondem a estes dois desafios, mas apenas nos distanciando de uma aproximação tecnocrático-instrumental e assumindo uma abordagem política da ideia. A ciência pós-normal fornece uma estrutura adequada para isso, porque os problemas emergentes apresentam desafios democráticos que exigem outro tratamento acadêmico e educacional. Nossa intenção com este texto é contribuir com material didático que incentive a introdução desse debate conceitual no ambiente de sala de aula. Longe de propor um confronto entre o modo de pensamento dominante, neste artigo propomos um argumento que busca desvendar os componentes básicos de nossa tese e mostrar a arbitrariedade de todas as construções teóricas que daí decorre. Esperamos, dessa forma, contribuir para uma educação ambiental e de sustentabilidade transdisciplinar que consista em desvendar a dimensão política dessa questão, repolitizar a educação, transcender a divisão entre relativismo e objetivismo e, estimular posicionamentos teóricos sem determinismos.

Biografia do Autor

Thomas Block, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Political Sciences, Ghent University

The identity of his research approach lies in the use of a (nuanced) constructivist epistemology, a complexity-acknowledging perspective, an interpretative policy analysis framework, a participative research design, and in the framing of sustainability issues as ‘political’ matter. His research focus is on complex decision-making and transition governance, education on wicked sustainability issues, scenarios and future studies, sustainable cities and urban projects.

Thomas Block is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development, Associate Professor ‘Sustainability and governance’ at the Department of Political Sciences and Special UGent Commissioner Sustainability, all at Ghent University.

Erik Paredis, Affiliation: Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Political Sciences, Ghent University

His research interests include the politics of sustainable development, sustainability transitions, governance approaches, the role of civil society, of science and technology, and North-South issues of sustainability. Thematically, this research addresses the circular economy in a broad sense. Previously, he worked on topics such as food, building, climate, ecological debt and sustainable cities. 

Erik Paredis is associate professor "Transition governance and socio-technical system innovation for the circular economy" at the Department of Political Sciences.

Peter van Aert, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur

His PhD research focusses on the concept of sustainability, applied to the local context of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Van Aert is cultural anthropologist with a Masters degree of de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is currently enrolled in the phD program in Social Sciences and Humanities of the National University of Quilmes, Argentina, where he is part-time teaching faculty at the Department of Social Sciences.

He holds a full time research and teaching position at the National University of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur. He is currently assigned at the Austral Centre of Scientific Investigation (CADIC-CONICET) in Ushuaia, due to a two-year grand (2020-2022) to fulfil his phD research.

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2021-01-08

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