Educação e sustentabilidade: o programa jovens ambientalistas na perspectiva de economia solidária no município de Picuí - Paraíba.

Abstract

Concern for sustainable developrnent represents the possibility of ensuring sociopolitical changes that do not compromise the ecological and social systems that sustain communities. There is a need for a socio-environmental education capable of provoking changes in attitudes in the cornmunity, considering the quality of life of students closely linked to sustainable development, interconnecting social and environmental responsibilities, considering environmental projects as a target for diffusion of learning and articulation of knowledge by proposing a Through a non-formal youth education. Based on the importance and scientific complexity of EJA, solidarity economy and sustainability, this work sought to make an analysis of knowledge and inforrnation about the activities developed by young people in the Young Environmentalist Project in the city of Picuí, Paraíba. This work constitutes a qualitative research of descriptive character. Solidarity economy was found around the activities of the program, in which stimulation, cooperation, trust and solidarity between students and collaborators takes place. These stimuli hide the strengthening o f the right to citizenship and the improvement o f the quality o f life.