SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACIES MOBILIZED IN THE PRODUCTION OF A CARTONERO BOOK: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHER EDUCATION IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
environmental education, cartonero movement, teacher training, writing, other ecologies
This work investigates the socio-environmental literacies mobilized in the writing of environmental chronicles and the production of a cartonero book. Socio-environmental literacies is a notion that emerges from the interface of environmental education and social literacy studies and, here, we apply it to the analysis of an educational experience in the context of the initial training of science and biology teachers. The research is guided by theoretical and methodological perspectives that dialogue with studies on social literacies, ecological epistemologies and environmental education, as well as principles and practices of the so-called "cartonero movement". The objective of this research was to understand some processes of socio-environmental literacies involved in the writing of environmental chronicles and in the production of a cartonero book in the context of initial teacher education, emphasizing the meanings of the knowledge mobilized by graduates in Biological Sciences. The work was carried out throughout the years 2019/2021 and involved teaching and research within the curricular component Ecology Practice of a Degree Course in Biological Sciences, Pernambuco/Brazil. The following investigation procedures were used: participant observation, field diary, photographic records and interpretative textual analysis. As results, it is noteworthy that the experience of producing a cartonero book in the classroom of training of teachers of science and biology proved to be a powerful didactic-pedagogical strategy in the construction of ecological meanings; points out possibilities for authorial writing in higher education and for environmental chronicles as mobilizers of the public communication of the sciences; suggests new modes of teaching with research in the resignification of knowledge and practices that consider the imagination, life stories and biocultural memory in cartonera classrooms. The research aims to contribute to the training of teachers in Biological Sciences and researchers in Teaching, aware of the role that writing has in contemporary challenges and socio-environmental transformations. Writing, today so associated with fear and power, with proclamation and denunciation, requires a close look at the formative practices of future teachers.