Abstract:
In this paper we seek to understand the museum, considering it an informal, in some cases, non-formal space of education, a favorable place to promote a critical and transformative approach to Environmental Education, on the epistemological issues surrounding the production of environmental knowledge, as well as social museology. For this, we used the qualitative research methodology, having as a theoretical foundation bibliographical research in authors of museology, science teaching, non-formal education, and critical environmental education, in which we present a brief epistemological reflection on the environmental crisis currently, as well as a brief history about the transformations that museum institutions have been going through over time. Museums have ceased to be elite and exclusive spaces, being led by the movement known as “New Museology”, aimed at the social transformation of local communities, which places them as educational spaces accessible to all society, which meets the ideas of a sustainable society, based on values established on Critical and Transformative Environmental Education, therefore popular and accessible to society. It brings as results considerations about the challenges of museum educators, recognizing the difficulties in carrying out an Environmental Education that is Transformative Criticism in museums that work with the school, in the formation of conscientious citizens capable of critical and constructive thinking in the Brazilian present.
Keywords:
non-formal education; integral museum; museal education