Educação ambiental: construção do catador de materiais recicláveis enquanto sujeito ecológico.

Abstract

The environmental issue today reach many issues of socioeconomic, political, cultural, and not only the ecological order. Thus to achieve changes in our habits environmental education emerges as the most viable alternative. In this study sought up to characterize the profile of the Waste pickers, highlight the importance of these subjects as environmental educators environmental. highlighting the importance of these subjects as environmental educators, seek grants to identify the interactions between the activities of collectors, structural demands and environmental crisis. As a research method the choice was the critical dialectical method, as this contributes to the understanding of reality seeking to overcome the immediacy, and go beyond the apparent, reaching the essence of phenomena. This theme was chosen in order to broaden the understanding of the reality of waste pickers and their perceptions as environmental educators and find grants that would help professional practice. The conclusions obtained during the investigation show that the waste pickers have the need to constantly acquire new knowledge and, consequently, the incorporation of this knowledge to their work, so they can develop the skills and competencies necessary to work as professionals, with care for the environment and the spread of this knowledge.