Experiências transdisciplinares do Projeto de Extensão Universitária Oceanos com estudantes em situação de vulnerabilidade social

Abstract

Studies have shown that the distance between man and the environment, imposed by an urban, technological, and consumerist society is the cause of environmental disasters. Education can reverse these scenarios, but, it still faces one of its biggest challenges, the thinking in an integral way of the human being with himself, with others, and with the environment. This qualiquantitative approach research relied on the report and analysis of two transdisciplinary theoricmethodological practices of the Oceanos Extension Project called Semantic Tree of Knowledge (ASC), applied in 2018 and 2019 with 200 and 60 young people, respectively, in the situation of social vulnerability, from the municipality of Itajaí-SC. Two aspects seem to have been necessary and essential for the implementation of the ASC: awareness of the contextualization to environmental issues and previous information about the different knowledge of the students. Its application has proven to be a cutout in time and space where reason and emotion, objectivity and subjectivity can work together, changing perceptions and ways of seeing and interpreting reality impacting the collective construction of knowledge. In this way, the learning process must be participative, autonomous, and protagonist so that the cause-effect relationships are deeper, more complex, comprehensive, and transdisciplinary.