Contributions and interconnections between complexity and dialetics in action research in environmental education

Abstract

This work is the result of epistemological concerns about action research and theoretical, epistemological and methodological assumptions of the Theory of Complexity and Dialectics as promoters of discussions about Environmental Education. In this sense, it aims to reflect on the contributions and interconnections between complexity and dialectics in action research in environmental education. In this way, the work is characterized by reflecting the contribution of categories present in the dialectic to environmental discussions and the development of action research, such as work, totality and praxis. And yet their relationship and dialogue with concepts present in Complexity, such as the ecology of action, unity in diversity (also present in dialectics), and the relationship of the parts with the whole. From this, understand how these existing contributions and interconnections contribute to the construction of an alternative research, based on educational action, as a tool for transforming reality. Thus, it is observed that action research in environmental education, from the perspective of complexity and dialectics, shows itself as an alternative for the emancipation of the participants involved in the phenomenon, in the sense of understanding the ideologies present in educational and environmental discourses, overcoming it, and building an environmentally conscious society.