Environmental Education and Recreation

Joints from the Sport of Canoeing

Abstract

This experience report presents the subject of environmental education (EE) in an interdisciplinary approach to the sport of kayaking and recreation, this with the aim of coordinating such fields, focusing as a research aspects of materiality that perceive the extent of the “Canoe at School”, developed at the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. The methodology promotes historical materialism, because this is the most appropriate method to address the issues which are to assess attitudes and outcomes resulting from human action in a social and political context. To answer questions thematic body of research, the study assumes that the sport in question, to facilitate contact with nature can also raises critical awareness about its importance to promote conservation.