Educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável: análise das políticas nacionais de educação para o ensino superior e o cumprimento da meta 4.7 da agenda 2030

Abstract

Addressing the role of education for sustainable development as a driving force to implement a culture focused on sustainability and considering the 2030 Agenda and the international commitment signed by Brazil to implement it, the present research presents the following questioning as a problem: education for sustainable development, a component of goal 4.7 of the UN 2030 Agenda, has been incorporated into Brazilian higher education, through national education policies? The development of this research is justified in the face of the latent imposition of overcoming the extractive way in which society has sought to develop, and of establishing a new sustainable paradigm that is widely applied in all sectors of society in order to curb the climatic cataclysm that has been accentuated as a result of the enormous use of natural resources in recent decades. Thus, it was established as a central objective to analyze whether education for sustainable development has been covered and/or fostered by national education policies aimed at higher education. It is expected to obtain as a result the confirmation that no specific national education policies for higher education were developed to promote education for sustainable development, goal 4.7 of the 2030 Agenda, but that universities have managed to implement it using it. of the National Policy for Education in Human Rights. For the satisfactory development of this research, the method of deductive approach was applied, starting from education for sustainable development in its extension, which comprises the environmental, social, and economic dimensions, and the national educational policies aimed at its promotion, until its applicability on a practical level, using the Postgraduate Course in Law at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul as a conference point.