Abstract

ESCHENHAGEN, María Luisa. Coloniality of knowledge in environmental education: the need for a dialogue between different kinds of knowledge. Prax. Saber [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.28, pp.56-69.  Epub Oct 07, 2021. ISSN 2216-0159.  https://doi.org/10.19053/22160159.v12.n28.2021.11601.

This article presents a reflection on environmental education in universities, understood as the acquisition of environmental criteria to make responsible decisions with and about life. This text explores the roots of the way in which the modern Western world has understood the concept of environment and the different political, economic, and social perspectives that pervade its understanding, in order to propose the need to diversify these points of view so that the ways of understanding environmental issues can be broadened. By reviewing how the concept of environment is understood, the way of understanding environmental problems changes. Through a critical documentary inquiry, this article presents the context and conception of environment. Then, the notion of modernity/coloniality is introduced, as well as the importance of the coloniality of knowledge to demonstrate how it influences the idea of nature. Lastly, a dialogue between different kinds of knowledge is presented and the perspective of diatopical hermeneutics is proposed, which helps to resolve possible misunderstandings, for example, around the proposal of "nature as a subject of law".

Keywords : coloniality of knowledge; environmental education; dialogue; diatopical hermeneutics.

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