Media and environmental literacy : making school relevant

Giuliano Reis, Ranilce Guimaraes Iosif, Juliana Reis

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Abstract: The formal school system has been deemed to be essential in helping build the necessary knowledge and attitudes needed to promote environmental literacy. However, in a reality regulated by inexact educational policies and strong socioeconomical inequalities, any attempt to empower those living in marginalized conditions to care for their environment-on both its natural and social dimensions-can be seriously compromised. The present ethnographic case study in a science classroom in a Brazilian public school describes and articulates how the use of media literacy-based instructional strategies can inform teachers and students' critical classroom practices towards ecologizing the performance of curricula.

Keywords: popular media literacy; ecoliteracy; environmental;  and science education; ethnographic case study; discourse analysis; global emancipating citizenship.

Resumo: O sistema de educação formal é considerado essencial para o desenvolvimento de uma alfabetização ecológica. Entretanto, em uma realidade regulada por políticas educacionais inexatas e fortes desigualdades sócio-econômicas, qualquer tentativa de incentivar aqueles vivendo na marginalidade para que cuidem do seu ambiente - seja ele natural ou social - está seriamentecomprometida. O presente estudo etnográfico de caso em uma sala de aula de ciências em uma escola pública no Brasil visa descrever e articular como o uso de estratégias baseadas em novas tecnologias de mídia pode facilitar as práticas pedagógicas de professores e alunos de modo a mediar uma implementação mais ecológica dos atuais currículos escolares.

 


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alfabetização em mídia popular; letramento ecológico; educação ambiental e científica; estudo de caso, análise do discurso, cidadania global emancipatória.

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