Enviromental education and the emergence of a sustainable culture in the globalization scenery

Abstract

Since the ecologic dimension goes beyond the established frontiers, either among distinct kinds of knowledge or among the territorial country limits, it presents a total binding with the planet globalization processes, beyond the merely economic phenomena. Without any hierarchical pretension, this dimension can be interpreted as a vital question, interrelated with all the other dimensions and affecting all of us. It has no fixed boundaries. However, the globalization impacts diverge from a country or a region, to another. The ecologic dimension may consist in a mobilization factor to conform the planetary solidarity, to create a local/global symbiosis through its power of sharing among different persons, collectivities and contexts, actions with ethic and humanist principles towards a cross-boundary perspective. This proposition of study points to the possibility of developing a way of thinking that associates the emergent sustainability paradigm to the economic and social development, to the inherent contradictions of the globalization processes and to the Environment Education, contextualized in the social, political, ecologic and cultural becomings, inside the space/time, local/global relations. In a general perspective, the education has the essential function of propitiating the sustainable development of the transition societies, in which the hegemonic way of thinking is still that of an occidental, modern, progressive and monocultural society.