Dialogues between Paulo Freire and Vandana Shiva as contributions to an Environmental Education from the South

Abstract

This work proposes the dialogue between the educator Paulo Freire and the scientist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva as a fertile ground for thinking about concepts, values and practices aligned with the perspectiva of an Environmental Education from the South. Considering the importance of these two thinkers to think about education in it´s liberating dimention and popular ecologism, respectively, we search, in their main works, meeting and discussion points capable of provoking reflections about the role of Environmental Education in the transformation os socio-environmental relations. As main dialogue´s points we raise: the identification of oppressions, the importance of popular culture and ancestral knowledge, sociobiodiversity as the basis for the unpressedent- viable, and Environmental Education from the South as a promoter of humanization, de-alienation and interdependence. These elements make us awere of the need to encrease the criticality and commitment of Environmental Education with the perspective of subalternized groups, whose resistence has been producing alternatives that feed on socio-biodiversity.