Produção artesanal de cosméticos naturais em turma de EJA: um dispositivo para contribuir com a educação ambiental

Abstract

The research has as challenge to build ideas about the production of natural artisanal cosmetics as a proposal for Environmental Education in conjunct with Young Adult Education students at a Santa Maria‟s school. Starting from the researches question, “can natural artisanal cosmetics be valued as a device to think about a more responsible ecologic consciousness?”, sought to unite knowledge about natural and artisanal cosmetology set with the concept of Solidarity Economy, bringing the proposal of thinking another form of economy, directly connected with the ideals of Environmental Education. The authors that supported this research were: Paul Singer, Vandana Shiva, Enrique Leff, Shaula Maíra Vincentini Sampaio, Leandro Belinaso Guimarães Moacir Gadotti, between others, and the results obtained from workshops was, in general, enough to work the generator question of the research, making possible the approximation of an ecologic environmental consciousness through the questioning the use of industrial cosmetics and the knowledge and generation of the natural artisanal cosmetics.