<b>A pedagogia da fraternidade: um diálogo entre a educação ambiental e a espiritualidade

Abstract

This work has as main objective to investigate the contributions of the Franciscan spirituality for environmental education. Accordingly, we conducted a path through the first paradigm shift, thereby breaking with the Cartesian thought and allying itself to Eco-Relational Perspective, which is the formation of social relationships based in love and faith to another. Although we know that the relationship between spirituality and ecology is relegated the margins of academic discussions, dare to defend the area, as desirable living, and there be beyond the knowledge constructed and data as the absolute truth. Thus, it is noted that the importance of spirituality for Environmental Education is in training human farm, while the side facing the critical stance of social capital. We believe that for (re) invent the world, we need the birth of a new man and a woman, since the fall of the link between the relationship society / nature, reflected in the way we think and act in this way the spirituality returns to man his condition of belonging to the universe, religion it, making it one and multiple. The human being is a relational being, because it turned our gaze to the configuration of social relations in contemporary and thus we find in Francis of Assisi, the hope of a more fraternal, which point to different drive.