The Triunitary Architecture of Learning Process: Proposal for A Critical Review for Environmental Education

Giarola Giovana, Vitorio Da Silva Luis Vitor, Gonçalves Silveira Leonardo, and Mariosa Duarcides Ferreira

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas in Brazil

Abstract: Among the various possibilities of reversal of the events that the environmental crisis has brought to society, proposals such as that of Environmental Education aims to correct the problem by adopting behavioral changes and the attitudes of consumers, whose base is founded on the world of life and not in the system, as in the theoretical proposal of Habermas, or in the superstructure and not in the economic infrastructure that determines it, as Marx affirms. In addition, this text briefly considers the relationship of the cognitive process and environmental education to produce the expected effect of behavioral change and attitudes aimed at sustainability. In the cognitive framework, it is relevant to consider the interaction between three structuring elements of the human brain: the instances of the rational argument, of the instinctive reactions and dispositions and the emotional ones present in the concept of the triune brain, under this interface, the insertion of environmental educational methodologies, which considers the cognitive understanding of the triune brain as an alternative to give rise to the population, civil society and the state, favorable attitudes towards sustainable development. Methodologically, the analysis is made from the succinct presentation of the path of the cognitive process and critical environmental education, exploring for it the theory of the triune brain of Paul MacLean, and the social and communicational theory of Niklas Luhmann. The discussion results suggest the communication process is one of the most important tools for the environmental education process. And to be effective and produce its expected effects, it is essential that there is understanding and understanding of the cognitive processes, of the structural and ideological determinations of the current economic production model.

Key words: cognitive Process, triune brain, environmental education