O curso eco design em sustentabilidade – Programa Gaia Education: análise sob a perspectiva do paradigma ecológico e da espiritualidade

Abstract

Understanding the current global crisis as a systemic crisis requires recognition, willingness and will to think and create possibilities for a just action, in conformity with the ecological paradigm, in favor of the change of this reality. Among the several actions in progress, education for the sustainability waves with real and concrete perspectives. This research is part of the investigation of this education, in the line "Religion, Politics and Education", and had as objective to analyze the Course Eco design in sustainability, of Gaia Education Program, under the perspective of the sustainability and the spirituality. It also sought to identify if spirituality is present in the course and what its typology would be. The Program was created in 2005, by the Network of Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth, becoming a standard complement by the UN for the "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005\2014". Based on the Pedagogy of Experiential Learning, the Gaia Education Program aims to provide technical tools that enable its students to learn different sustainable practices, based on community experiences and the relationships they establish with the environment, whether rural or urban. The methodology of the research was the bibliographic nature of primary and secondary sources, through course materials and reference works in the area of education, sustainability and spirituality, in the context of the Sciences of religion, theology and environmental and social sciences. After the research, it was verified the articulation between education, sustainability and spirituality, as well as that this present spirituality is sui generis, revealing spiritual practices and dialogue as a reference for the development of education for sustainability in an integral way. Keywords: Ecology. Ecological paradigm. Education. Sustainability, Spirituality. Eco Design Course of the Gaia Education Program. Science of Religion.