Environmental education and social justice: reflections in times of democratical solitude

Abstract

The present text seeks to critically reflect, from the point of view of Critical Environmental Education, about the conception of Social Justice. Therefore, a historical-political perspective of democracy and citizenship in the Brazilian scenario is brought up to the debate, as a possibility not only for understanding the current scenario, but also as a re-reading of the socio-environmental relations that define contemporary reality. This dialogue is based on Gadamer’s hermeneutic conception of a universal process of understanding which problematizes the ‘unsaid’, offering a perspective of openness so that we can think about ourselves and about our place in the world. In the end, it is hoped to have promoted a critical and dialogic rethinking of reality so that one can act in search of a social justice still extremely denied.