A política ambiental da indústria mineral: análise dos programas educacionais construídos para os trabalhadores da Vale na mina Brucutu

Abstract

In Minas Gerais, the state government decided a reference term that guides companies with high pollution potential in the development and implementation of educational programs directed to workers and communities affected by the projects. Whereas environmental education intends to collaborate with the construction of critical thinking about reality, this research analyzes the current environmental education program developed by the company Vale in Brucutu mine, identifying how the workers understand and evaluate the educational activities developed by the mining company. From a (re) reading of the categories work and environmental education, the research analyzes how educational programs are constructed and understood by workers in the iron mine. Assuming that there is no neutrality in the educational process, environmental education also represents the ideological conception of who educates. Therefore, we seek to identify the location of environmental education in the context of current transformations in the world of work. To carry out this research, the methodological strategies was set in steps: 1) data collection, analysis and diagnosis of the elements that make up the social, economic and environmental aspects of mining, especially of Brucutu mine; 2) Field work in structured observation techniques and semi-structured interviews. Finally, it is noteworthy that the research aims to introduce new elements to the analysis of environmental education programs built for the world of work.