Cuidar da vida nas bacias urbanas: casos do córrego do Capão

Abstract

This research is based on an interlocution with a teacher from a municipal elementary school who is the founder and leader of a socio-spatial group that has been involved in restoring the riparian forest of the Córrego do Capão for twelve years. I examine the relationship between the school, the government and the group in the construction of this space, which takes place through care work in the context of the environmental crisis. I analyze both the organization and activities of the group - which focuses on environmental education and broadening the imaginary of the basin’s residents - and the teacher’s obstacles and strategies for involving students and other teachers in this cause, while engaging in dialogue with the government, which has plans for the space. The approach to the group took place through academic disciplines, extension projects, meetings with the City Council and activities within the school, seeking to develop, within the framework of socio-spatial pedagogy, ways of acting from the encounter between the university and community-based environmental education. As an effect of the relationship, a website is being developed which aims to expand the group’s autonomy by revealing the behaviour of water in the urbanized basin and its relationship with the daily lives of human and non-human residents over time.