Investigando a disciplina escolar Educação Ambiental em Armação dos Búzios, RJ: entre histórias e políticas de currículo

Abstract

This study aims to understand the process of emergency of the school subject Enviromental Education in the city of Armação dos Búzios – RJ, which happened from 2006 to 2008. Dialoguing with the Curriculum Studies, I support my ideas mostly on the History of School Subjetcs (Ivor Goodson; Marcia Serra Ferreira) and on Curriculum Policy (Stephen Ball; Alice Casimiro Lopes). Using as sources written documents and the testimonials from the professionals who worked in the City Secretariat of Education in that period of time, I study the processes which lead to the constitution of that school subject, including those actions that produced this cultural material, I mean, the conflicts, disputes and negociations which were involved in the establishment of this subject in the city public schools. Especially based on the work developed by Stephen Ball and contributors, I realize the emergency of this school subject facing a variety of senses for this field, produced in different contexts, focusing the reinterpretations and hybridization within the context of production. Along this analysis, I highlight the ambivalences that were elaborated along the process of constitution of this curricular component, once the environmental field started to be presented as a transversal theme and at the same time as a school subject. I realize that actions as the ones observed in the studycase city began building senses of a typical school Enviromental Education which, in the aim for strength, establishes a connection with the disciplinar and epistemic communities, reaching status, resources and territory (Ivor Goodson). Hence, I stand up for the fulfillment of studies, as the one that follows, which pursue to understand the paths Environmental Education has searched for its insertion among the School Subjects.