Educação ambiental em terras indígenas potiguara: concepções e possibilidades na educação de jovens e adultos nas escolas estaduais indígenas do município de Rio Tinto-PB

Abstract

In recent decades, the Environmental Education gained much prominence in the scientific community, becoming an important tool that society has in seeking to minimize the damage caused to the environment. Currently, there is the need to approach this issue in all segments of society, including traditional communities, such as indigenous peoples for environmental education may become an instrument that, coupled with the cultural aspects of these peoples, to promote cross changes in attitudes and behavior in today's consumer society. Thus, the aim of this work is to analyze the importance of applying Environmental Education Youth and Adults through the contributions of differentiated education in state schools Potiguara Indigenous people from the villages of Jaragua and Monte-Mór, located in the city of Rio Tinto-PB. It is important to understand that the territory and territoriality differ designing other forms of organization other territories because it is a social space that has as main element ethnicity. From the standpoint of theoretical and methodological seek dialogue with authors of phenomenology, given, his ideas are in accordance with our investigations as Haesbaert (2004) and Santos (2010), among others. This study has a qualitative approach. In addition of research literature and documents, field visits were crucial for our reflections, since it was through them that we unravel the importance that environmental education awakens in the differentiated schools and villages Potiguara. The study presents an educational reality of a very peculiar context involving traditional indigenous communities present in the Mamanguape s Valley and their relationship with nature and with the non-indigenous population of the headquarters of the Paraíba s cities of Baía da Traição, Marcação and Rio Tinto.