Consciousness and Environmental Education: Transdisciplinary Urgencies from the Post-pandemic Context

Abstract

This paper presents reflections on the fundamentals of Environmental Education when dealing with the urgency of learning the lessons from the pandemic crisis period of the Coronavirus. For this, from a transdisciplinary approach, crossing and seeking to go beyond different disciplines, some of the challenges that were intensified with the pandemic are contextualized, with the support of authors from sociology (Boaventura de Sousa Santos) and philosophy (Edgar Morin), in dialogue with authors who discuss in the field of education (Balduíno Andreola; Paulo Freire), as well as the inspiration of literature (Ernesto Sabato). As a convergence point of the reflections there is the investigative treatment about the concept of consciousness in different perspectives and how we can articulate criticality and transdisciplinarity the urgencies in learning process on Environmental Education. Among these socio-environmental urgencies that appear is the need to pedagogically approach the complexity of the concept of life and the inequalities that mark the pandemic period.