Education of attention in environmental education practices

Abstract

This paper was written by several hands, with the aim to conceptualize and report on different experiences of environmental education practices from the perspective of Education of Attention. Hence, we describe three undergraduate theses carried out by students from the Biological Sciences Program at the Federal University of Paraná. The first thesis, authored by Bruna Caroline Buss in 2018, focused on Arthropods as its theme. The second one, authored by Vanessa Aparecido Qualho in 2020, described a professional development workshop on fungi for basic education teachers from Palotina, state of Paraná, Southern Brazil. The third thesis, authored by Vanessa Mohr Fülber in 2023, analyzed the relationship between children and soil microorganisms. We concluded that the concept of Education of Attention can be adopted into the field of environmental education research and its practices.