The periurban landscape of Garanhuns/Brazil: potentialities and contradictions

Abstract

The Anthropocene marks a period of urgency in discussions about the current model of appropriation
of nature by society and new reflections on the management of natural resources. Thus, it becomes
urgent to consider new perspectives that break with the utilitarian, economicist and reductive
logic of rivers and waters perceived only as natural/water resources. Given this, schools as a
fundamental locus for building environmental education assumes an important role in the
construction of spatial practices and citizen training and management, based on the biophysical
dynamics of rivers, on the symbolic and affective relationships of communities with rivers. The
production and use of Games, due to their playful and dynamic character, has been presented as a
current alternative in the critical formative process about society and nature relations,
constituting an important pedagogical strategy in the field of Environmental Education. The
extension project “Conexões-Rios” seeks to promote the reconnection between rivers and society
through pedagogical practices centered on Environmental Education, stimulating the visibility of
rivers as important elements of the landscape and the daily lives of subjects. The objective of
this work is to approach the experience of creating and using the digital game “O chamado do rio”,
as a language and tool for re-signification of the students' view of rivers, based on the
experience of creating a collective game developed by extension students, together with the school
community. from Colégio Estadual Carmem de Luca Andreiolo, located in the municipality of Miguel
Pereira, in the context of the Guandu
Catchment (RJ).