Socio-environmental Educommunication: city and school¹

Abstract

This paper has the purpose of reflecting upon communication and urban social-environmental topics, considering, above all, some of the formal education current practices. Together with support from non-formal and informal education, and also from the media ecosystem, the mechanisms in evidence can influence the environmental neglect which is increasing in the urban areas. The data that support the reflection come from research carried out in public and private basic education schools in São Paulo (city), as well as in other spaces, using different types of virtual and face to face dialogs. The analytical course indicates that encouraging educommunicative procedures within projects related to discuss the problems which compromise quality of life, mainly in big cities, can increase the ecosystemic perspective that may bring benefit to the young students and to the society.

Keywords
socio-environmental educommunication; ecosystem perspective; emancipation; city; school