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Educación ambiental en tiempos de catástrofe: la respuesta educativa al naufragio del Prestige Environmental education in times of catastrophes: the education response to the shipwreck of the Prestige

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dc.creator Pablo Angel Meira Cartea
dc.date 2005-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:13:54Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:13:54Z
dc.identifier 10.1590/S1517-97022005000200009
dc.identifier 1517-9702
dc.identifier 1678-4634
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/d3c108a40ac248798d2e2c889c8d3214
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16406
dc.description En noviembre de 2002, un petrolero obsoleto, el Prestige, naufragó y vertió su carga en las costas de Galicia (noroeste de la Península Ibérica). Este accidente originó un "experimento" social indeseado pero valioso para comprender cómo se representa socialmente la experiencia catastrófica de los "riesgos manufacturados". Este artículo analiza la respuesta del sistema educativo regional a la catástrofe desde dos puntos de vista: a) su comprensión en el marco de la respuesta social crítica y proactiva ante los intentos oficiales de representar una "no-catástrofe" y, b) el papel de la Educación Ambiental (EA) como praxis pedagógica cuya dimensión política se revela como indispensable. La tesis que defendemos es que la naturaleza política de la EA, muchas veces sólo implícita y otras negada explícitamente, se redescubre aquí como eje primordial en la respuesta del sistema educativo y de otros agentes educadores. En este sentido, la catástrofe no ha sido sólo ecológica, sino también, y sobre todo, social y política al cuestionar la globalización económica - su causa radical - y poner en evidencia la vulnerabilidad de las administraciones, incapaces de prevenir o mitigar su impacto sobre el ambiente y las comunidades humanas. En este escenario, la EA contribuye a reflexionar sobre el origen de la catástrofe como consecuencia inesperada de la "modernidad avanzada", en sintonía con el análisis que hace Ulrich Beck sobre la "sociedad del riesgo" y sobre el potencial politizador de las sucesivas catástrofes - la punta del iceberg - en las que el nuevo ethos social se manifiesta y construye.<br>In November 2002, the Prestige, an obsolete oil tanker, sank and spilled her cargo offshore Galicia (in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula). This accident originated a social experiment, unwanted but valuable to understand how the catastrophic experience of the "manufactured risks" is socially represented. The present article analyzes the response of the regional education system to the catastrophe from two viewpoints: a) of its comprehension in the context of the critical and proactive social response to the official intent of representing a "non-catastrophe", and b) of the role of Environmental Education (EE) as a pedagogical praxis whose political dimension is revealed as indispensable. The thesis we shall defend is that the political nature of EE, many times just implicit and others explicitly denied, is recognized here as the fundamental axis in the response of the education system and of other education agents. In this sense, the catastrophe has not been just ecological but also, and foremost, social and political by questioning the economic globalization - its profound cause - and by putting in evidence the vulnerability of the administrations, incapable of preventing or mitigating its impact on the environment and on the human communities. In this scenario, EE contributes to the reflection about the origin of the catastrophe as an unforeseen consequence of the "advanced modernity", in conformity with the analysis by Ulrich Beck of the "risk society", and of the politizing potential of the successive catastrophes - the tip of the iceberg - in which the new social ethos is manifested and constructed.
dc.language Portuguese
dc.language Spanish
dc.language English
dc.publisher Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo
dc.relation http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-97022005000200009
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1517-9702
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1678-4634
dc.rights CC BY-NC
dc.source Educação e Pesquisa, Vol 31, Iss 2, Pp 265-283 (2005)
dc.subject Educación Ambiental
dc.subject Sociedad del riesgo
dc.subject Catástrofe ambiental
dc.subject Educación política
dc.subject Environmental Education
dc.subject Risk Society
dc.subject Environmental catastrophe
dc.subject Political education
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Educación ambiental en tiempos de catástrofe: la respuesta educativa al naufragio del Prestige Environmental education in times of catastrophes: the education response to the shipwreck of the Prestige
dc.type article


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