Escolas sustentáveis: reiventando a escola e a humanidade

Abstract

The development comprehension inherited by our ancestors and still valid in nowadays societies brought to humanity the dilemma of changing or becoming extinct. Instead of what was thought, planet Earth resources are finite and the creation of new economic development paradigms that respect earth and its ecosystems as well as future generations is, therefore, essential. This paradigm change goes mandatorily trough education and trough a school reinvention towards what is known as the Sustainable School. Starting from the author’s personal and professional experiences, as well as from an intensive literature research, the general goal was defined as the observation of environmental practices in a particular school, and specific goals were the reflection on the implications determined by unsustainable school and society models trough a comparison between consumerist life style of the contemporary society, earth unsustainability and the urgency to reinvent schools in a way to become sustainable schools and, consequently, a source of new society practices. The research found a real detachment between environmental practices developed in the observed school community and the commitment with education for sustainability, showing the urgent need to awake schools and educators to the commitment to school and humanity reinvention, trough the loving exchange that connects one being to another and remakes the life net. The Sustainable School is the dream school