Environmental identity in post-modernity

Abstract

Discussion of the identity formation of subjects who consider themselves linked to the natural and sustainable environment in postmodern contexts, with the following objectives: to know and understand the concepts of Identity, Environmental Identity and its Cultural Pedagogies; to understand in what ways the subject's Environmental Identity is established in Postmodernity and how Cultural Pedagogies assist this process; to examine how Cultural Pedagogies influence the formation of Identity; to debate the construction of Environmental Identity in Postmodernity; and to investigate and analyze how Environmental Discourses can persuade us in ecological attitudes. Based on a bibliographic review of the theme, interviews were conducted with Basic Education teachers in the Hortênsias Region of Rio Grande do Sul about their training and educational practices aimed at children and what they intend to teach about sustainability and environmentalism, in addition to the discursive textual analysis of the content of the media vehicle Menos1Lixo. It is possible to state that there are indications that the discourses present in the media and in education produce a postmodern environmental identity, with strong links to so-called sustainable consumption, but which also lacks questioning.