Research Lines

The Master's Program in Environmental Education has only one area of concentration: Environmental Education. It currently presents the following lines of research:

Fundamentals of Environmental Education

It addresses the historical, anthropological, sociological, philosophical, ethical and epistemological foundations of Environmental Education, considering that they are important in defining and understanding the relations between nature and society and the field of Environmental Education, thus favoring the construction of critical perspectives on the subject in the face of the socio-ecological-environmental crisis.

Environmental Education: Teaching and Training of Educators

It addresses issues concerned with Environmental Education in institutionalized educational contexts, with special emphasis on the action and practical training of teachers. It discusses, through the process of research and training of researchers in environmental education, the identity aspects and knowledge of teaching, learning networks and the establishment of environmental educators, as a way of understanding, from the educational-pedagogical field, about the emerging environmental demands in contemporary society.

Non-Formal Environmental Education

It studies socio-ecological-environmental issues in the non-formal and informal fields of Environmental Education. It emphasizes the ethical and aesthetic dimension, the diversity and otherness of social groups, the relationships between Environmental Education, genders, human generations at all ages, human and systemic development, the understanding of the interconnection of environmental spaces, collective health, and the quality of life of subjects and social institutions and organizations. It also aims at the commitment of researchers involved in returning the results of their work to the communities investigated (beginning and end of research), as well as the participation of integrated communities in the decision-making processes of ecosystem management, preferably in coastal zones, in search of the collective construction of sustainable societies and achievable utopias.