Environmental Education in Public Management: The process of building the Sustainable Fisheries Development Policy in the State of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

This paper is part of a doctoral research aimed to analyze the Environmental Education present in the construction process of the Sustainable Fisheries Development Policy in the State of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil. As a starting point, the environmental conflict that opposes, on the one hand, industrial trawlersand, on the other, artisanal fishermen working in the coastal zone is taken, whereas the educational praxis and the method present in the process of collective subject constitution and in the transformation of conflict into potentiality of reality transformation through Public Management are examined from the Freirean and Marxist perspectives. The importance of the method is highlighted as aninstance adopted by the environmental educator in tensioned processes involving environmental conflicts.