Climate change in the vision of students teaching São Paulo city schools east, Brazil

Abstract

The text deals with a research project, on international networks, which is concomitantly carried out in schools of São Paulo, in Brazil and in twelve other countries. The guiding reference point is Edgar Morin’s epistemolgy of complexity and the multidimensional methodology consists in bibliographic and field research: observation, focus groups, interviews and seminarswith pupils of three Secondary Schools of São Paulo. In the final phase, the research has duration of four school years and the first phase, culminating in the presentation of the results in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), in Paris, in the year of 2015.On the basis of an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinaryapproach of the knowledge about climate change,we understand that school can sensibilise the pupils to the broadening of the ecological view of reality. The purpose of this text is to present the first results of observations of this study, the primordial objective of which is to establish responsible actionsfor the exercise of planetary citizenship, among Secondary School pupils. We wish young people to become conscious citizens in their choices and in their social,ethical and political commitments.