A Importância da Literatura Infanto-Juvenil como Instrumento Formador de Reflexão para a Educação Ambiental

Abstract

One of the objectives of Environmental Education (EE) is to train critical citizens who can fight for their rights and understand their duties, understand the importance of interpersonal relations and the preservation of the cultural and environmental environment. In a conception of transformative EE, school education is an environment of social change, where there is a transformation associated with values, cognitive patterns, democratic political action and economic relations. Although not solely responsible for this, the school prepares the new generations for the challenges of the world, as it can and should contribute to the formation and stimulation of citizen criticality and awareness of the population about social and environmental problems. Added to this is reading, which plays an important role in the formation of the subject, as it contributes to its reflective and transformative construction, since the child, when inserted in the world of reading, makes discoveries and later broadens the understanding of himself and herself. of the world around her. Thus, the objective was to produce three books (collection) of children and youth literature with Amazonian themes and environmental themes related to the region to encourage the formation of reflective students and sustainable practices. A qualitative methodology was used, with an exploratory and descriptive approach in addition to the bibliographic and documentary research that will support the elaboration and production of children's books. The reading of the works found was performed and their main results were subsequently emphasized together with the elaborated stories of the proposed collection. It is noteworthy that through the literature raised, that the truly transformative Environmental Education does not worry or prioritize the contents to be passed ("environmental"), but rather works with the construction of new ethical values, aesthetics and a conception of production. and work closer to the artistic way than the hegemonic ideas of productivity. In this sense, art enables a dialogue with the values and worldviews it brings.