Environmental education, environmental justice and gender issues: the perspective of a group of community environmental educators of Mage, RJ

This study focuses on a group of community environmental educators, who work in communities under social and environmental vulnerability in Mage, RJ. From the follow-up of this group, we had as objective to raise themes brought by educators that dialogue with the movement for environmental justice and with the gender discussions, as a way to contextualize the practices of Critical Environmental Education in the midst of a reality of inequalities. The issues raised show that socio-environmental problems overlap with various situations of inequality and exclusion that are spreading in the territory, including gender inequalities. The work carried out by the educators presents the contradictions brought, on the one hand, by denunciations of a daily social and environmental injustices and, on the other hand, a humanizing educational work that emerges from the community itself.