Brazilian cultural anthropophagi and education – ecologist contributions to a pedagogy of the “devouring”

Abstract

This is the result of a research about the contributions of the Brazilian Cultural Anthropophagi, in its overflowing post 1922 Modern Art Week, to the formation of teachers in general and in environmental education, in particular. This research is being developed since the last four years and it is being funded by CAPES and by CNPq. In teachers’ formation, in environmental education, knowledge and experiences are a repertory that can not be disregarded. Teachers’ formation can’t be based only in the transmission of knowledge and in techniques. We try to demonstrate in the text that the ideas that orientate anthropophagic thought constitute in a calling in the sense of showing that the educative process needs to seek for new speakers. It is not acceptable anymore, that we continue to repeat norms, rules, and importing models without doing its proper devouring. The cultural anthropophagi and the environmental education have both, in their origins, this commitment: to dialogue with the other without, however, giving up its own being.