A Educação Ambiental nos projetos de Parcerias Público-Privadas: da cooptação à produção de consenso

Abstract

The research analyzed the relationship between Public-Private Partnerships ( PPPs) and Environmental Education practices, as a cooperation process between the state represented by the municipal government and the Monsanto transnational company. The objective was to apprehend consensus building strategies used in the constitution process of public-private partnerships. I tried to interpret the intentions, the mechanisms and strategies present in this relationship, understood as instruments for which the practice of environmental education is redirected to form certain values, skills and abilities within the context investigated. The central category was hegemony, what enabled me to identify the political-ideological aspects of the phenomenon that make up the direction and control process of social relations in those territories. The Institutionalization of public-private partnerships has its origin in reform of State occurred between the 1980s and 1990s. We seek to know the phenomenon demonstrating your connection with mode production and reproduction capitalist, revealing its contradictions and implications and environmental education practices. The questions that directed the investigation were: What are the elements consensus that present themselves in the practices of EA, in the school context, from the effectiveness of partnerships? And what role does the environmental education starts to play in the board of issues socioenvironmental the investigated context, impacted by the movement of capital hegemony? The research took place in some municipalities in the state from Mato Grosso, inserted in the region that makes up the agribusiness circuit and concentrates a strong commercial performance of multinationals (Syngenta, Monsanto, Bayer), product suppliers for this economic activity. The regional space, in the last decades, has been consolidating how big commodity producer, being decisive in the territorial transformation especially, with regard to land use where expansion and intensification of agriculture constitutes a determining fator economic and environmental dynamics. The research concluded that public-private partnership projects, developed by Monsanto in the schools investigated, fulfill the role of movement inducers of recomposing bourgeois hegemony, transforming environmental education in an instrument of production of hegemony in the territories of agribusiness. The environmental education, in the context of public policies, is considered an instrument of awareness, dialogue and assimilation different knowledge, that transforms social relations and redefines the shape how people relate and interfere with the natural environment. In this sense, the study it is also constituted a reflection on the paper that is up to environmental critical education, as an instrument of problematization of processes of environmental degradation and your contribution to motivate changes toward to citizenship and environmental ethics.