From work as an educational principle to Critical Environmental Education: Historical-Critical Pedagogy as a theoretical and methodological possibility in school education

a Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica como possibilidade teórico-metodológica na educação escolar

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https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.26.088.DS13

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Escolarização, conteúdos, forma, marginalidade, colapso ambiental

Abstract

This essay situates the context faced by the Brazilian working class in present-day Brazil, considering two specific issues: on the one hand, the brutal conditions of precariousness, flexibilization, and super-exploitation of the workforce in a country of dependent and peripheral capitalism, permanently threatened economically, politically, culturally, and ideologically by imperialist powers interested in exporting primary goods and raw materials. On the other hand, environmental catastrophes range from climatic adversities of all kinds to major disasters such as the collapse of mining dams, which make the popular classes the greatest victims. Subjected to an economic model that reproduces profound social inequalities and a process of environmental devastation with a high degree of destruction of reserves and increasing deforestation, worrying predictions emerge for the country in the coming decades. In this context, historical critical pedagogy presents itself as a fundamental theoretical and methodological framework for a school education that offers the Brazilian working class and their children a revolutionary alternative that fosters an understanding of the main contradictions of the world of work and environmental problems in Brazil, starting from historical-dialectical materialism as a theoretical and conceptual framework.

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Lima de Souza, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Doutor e Mestre em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminsense (UFF), Professor Associado do Departamento de Estudos da Educação Inclusiva e Continuada (DEIC) da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EDU/UERJ), Professor da rede municipal de ensino do Rio de Janeiro.

Leonardo Kaplan, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Doutor em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, mestre em Educação, licenciado em Ciências Biológicas e bacharel em Ciências Biológicas - modalidade Ecologia. Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Estudos Aplicados ao Ensino da Faculdade de Educação da UERJ (DEAE/EDU/UERJ). 

Published

2026-03-26

How to Cite

Souza, L. de, & Kaplan, L. (2026). From work as an educational principle to Critical Environmental Education: Historical-Critical Pedagogy as a theoretical and methodological possibility in school education: a Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica como possibilidade teórico-metodológica na educação escolar. Revista Diálogo Educacional, 26(88), p. 335–346. https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.26.088.DS13