Environmental education in the higher technology course in Agroecology at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia of the state of Paraná (IFPR) in light of the theory of counter-coloniality

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Abstract

This article addresses environmental education and how the theme is inserted into the Pedagogical Project of the undergraduate course in Agroecology at the Campo Largo campus of IFPR. The general objective was to question environmental education that disregards the knowledge of indigenous peoples in light of the counter-colonial theory. The theme is important because Agroecology is credited with the ability to generate reflections on environmental education, transcending Eurocentric concepts and reaching confluence and biointeraction. The methodology included a literature review and documentary research. The main result was to verify the need to strengthen Agroecology in professional and technological education, starting from the counter-colonial theory and its critique of Eurocentrism and productivism, and it is concluded that there is a need to think of critical environmental education as part of the integral formation process.