Current Issue
In July 2023, the VII International Congress on Environmental Education of Lusophone Countries and Portuguese-Speaking Communities and Galicia will be held in the Republic of Mozambique. These Congresses have been held without interruption since the first edition, in 2007, as a political and academic space for Portuguese-speaking communities. The objectives can be summarized in at least three: to promote scientific exchange, generate opportunities for international cooperation and create a pedagogical culture around genuine environmental education.
This new meeting of the Lusophone Community addressed Environmental Education as a key to Sustainability. This double issue of the magazine reports on some of the contributions that were presented as oral communications and that were recommended by the Scientific Commission of the event.
The Maputo Congress served to delve deeper into Educational and Development Policies based on environmental education. The debates revolved around key themes such as: the promotion of experiences and research from the educational system for the construction of a citizenship committed to life on the Planet, the role of education in the face of global challenges such as the climate emergency, measures for the conservation of biodiversity or proposals for plans and projects for ecosocial development.
In this issue we collect some of the contributions that underpin the role of environmental education in development proposals, from an ethical perspective, based on the right to a just and equitable life. We also find proposals from the Educational System, from the daily life of learning from the local but with a global perspective, from popular knowledge and from the contributions of academia, respecting diversities and different cultural and social identities. With a common challenge: changing the system, with special attention to groups in situations of vulnerability, through education, training, research, dissemination and collective action.
