Vol. 01 No. 017 (2014)

This article aims to analyze the training in environmental education of professionals working in this area of ​​management and environmental education in public bodies related to this theme and how they develop environmental programs, projects and / or socio-educational practices in the environmental management process. For the establishment of this problem, the investigation (of a qualitative nature) was limited to a territorial area located in the extreme west of the State of São Paulo / Brazil, called, in state environmental policies, as Espigão Divisor Peixe-Aguapeí. City halls and state public bodies of environmental reference were considered in four municipalities that host administrative microregions, namely Marília, Tupã, Adamantina and Dracena, constituting the so-called multicases. The investigations allowed to conclude that, in the majority, the researched agencies do not present an environmental education as a permanent educational process and do not seek the emancipation of citizens and their collaborators. There are several environmental practices still adopted in a punctual and watertight way, losing the conceptual essence of environmental education. Environmental education in the management process of environmental agencies, in several cases, is related to one or another Professional who has a more focused look at the environmental issue, more personifying than institutionalizing the practice undertaken.

The aim of this article is to make a substantiated assessment of how the deep social and economic crisis that Galician society is suffering is affecting Environmental Education (EA). To this end, a survey was applied to a sample of 101 professionals who have worked or are working in this field in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain). The resulting data allow us to compare their occupational situation at the dawn of the crisis, year 2007, with that they had in early 2013, at the time of applying the survey that empirically supports the study. The theoretical perspective of analysis is based on the notion of social field proposed by Pierre Boudieu, considering EA as a social field with hybrid properties of the environmental and educational fields.

The presence of the natural environment appeared till now in the shape of comic or graphic humour vignettes, shows how the relation between Humanity and Nature has evolved. From the cave pictographs, the situation has changed and so have the treated contents. Nature has always been inspiring of stories and fantasies, but the harsh reality of the environment nowadays has made us consider the print we are leaving on our planet due to our way of living. What can we expect of the future? Some of the following w orks deal with it all and show they can be an effective method to raise society’s consciousness about environment.

Enviromental education must be primarily a political act concerned with social transformation.
Its focus should be on searching for a holistic action perspective that correlates mankind,
nature and the universe, having as a reference point the fact that natural resources run out
and that mankind bears the main responsibility for its degradation