Produção científica brasileira acerca das Políticas Públicas em Educação Ambiental: Pesquisa exploratória na Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of Brazilian scientific production in open access journals on “Public Policies for Environmental Education”. Exploratory research was conducted in the internationally recognized Brazilian directory of open access journals SciELO, the biggest in Brazil. The authors indicated 17 specific articles on public policies for environmental education and identified: the main data about the journals that published them; the years with the most publications on the subject; the authors with the most articles published in the area and their institutional ties; the conceptual and methodological matrixes; the most explored subjects and theories; the  public policies, guidelines, actions, strategies, projects and programs for environmental education cited; and the international visibility of the articles. To do so they used the Content Analysis methodology. The purpose of the study was to outline the state of knowledge about public policies for environmental education in Brazil based on articles published in Brazilian scientific journals indexed in the SciELO directory. It concluded that scientific production on the subject is limited to a small number of publications in journals, making it increasingly important to develop theoretical-practical studies capable of informing environmental educators, the government and society in general aiming to strengthen activities, control and social participation.