O diálogo entre a educação ambiental crítica e o enfoque ciência, tecnologia, sociedade e meio ambiente: uma análise da produção acadêmica

When reflecting on the complexity of Environmental Education (EE), the economic and political interactions that determine the production system should be contemplated so to understand the current socio-environmental crisis, and the approaches to overcome it. Thus, Critical Environmental Education (CEE) and the Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) focus are connected in order to promote a meaningful science education regarding the complexity of the socio-environmental crisis. Thus, the teaching and learning processes of scientific knowledge in dialogue with other forms of knowledge must be considered as a conceptual, procedural and attitudinal training mechanism, adding notions of the environment as a whole and of the link between ethics, work and social practice; still, the CEE and STSE approaches must expose scientific knowledge as being determined by the historical and social context of its construction, irrigated by disputes and conflicts existing in society. The objective of the present article is to raise an overview of academic and scientific production that seeks a dialogue between the CEE and the STSE approaches, based on the databases of EArte and the Revista Eletronica do Mestrado em Educacao Ambiental ( REMEA). Thus, an exploratory and descriptive research carried out a state-of-the-art literature review regarding studies on CEE and STSE. The search strategy in the EArte database defined for the scope of the present assessment resulted in 19 papers defended in postgraduate courses in the period between 2005 and 2016, with 16 stricto sensu master's dissertations and two lato sensu master's dissertations, as well as one PhD thesis. As for publications in REMEA, it resulted in 10 articles selected in the period between 2006 and 2017. Using the Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) for the assessment of the selected studies’ titles, three categories emerged indicating research trends in the selected field: Theory, Curriculum and Didactics; Pedagogical Conceptions and Practices, and EE Sequences of Activities in Schools. The recent increase in researches addressing these two perspectives demands a greater articulation between academic research and pedagogical practice in the broad contexts of school or out-of-school education.