dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the environmental education and the literacy process of adult women from Amazon of Mato Grosso State. The study contextualizes, first of all, the traversed paths of education with the socio-environmental theory and the critical education and the dialogue, influenced by the works of Paulo Freire. The aim of this research was to analyze the theoretical discussion about the importance of environmental education to preserve living beings, the nature and the planet Earth, and in particular, how it happens and how it works, through pedagogical mediation that occurs in schools. The methodological choice had similarities between formative research and participatory research. Therefore, the investigation was conducted throughout two years inside a public classroom, informal, of basic education for youth and adults in Spiritual Center Maria de Nazaré, located in the municipality of Sinop, Mato Grosso. One of the results consists of involvement between researcher and the subjects in literacy process within an educational experience whose dialogical relationship between the woman teacher and women students, “educator and educatee”, allowed the comprehension of the worldview, and the collective production of the socio-environmental reflection. Ultimately, through a reflexive analysis, it was concluded the search for dialogic educational possibilities, socializing and promoting citizenship. | en |