Community resistance as an emerging pedagogy for an Environmental Education of Sustainability: Reflections from Jilotzingo and Temacapulin, Mexico

Abstract

Faced with the growing socio-environmental conflict in Mexico derived from infrastructure megaprojects, which perceive nature as a commercial object and reify the harmonious relationships that population groups establish with it, community resistances have emerged with more and more force that confront said instrumental and mechanistic logic promoted by the hegemonic development model. These resistances are generating alternative meanings of life to the neoliberal discourse, where the defense of the territory and the struggle to remain as collectivities with their ancestral knowledge and practices anchored to a territory, promote an emergent pedagogy that points to formative processes of the population in a sustainability for life. Therefore, the objectives of this work are to know and analyze two community resistances, from the voice of key social actors in them, to understand the learning that is being generated in their own territories in order to build particular processes of sustainability. As an anticipated conclusion, it is highlighted that, through a genuine environmental education based on resistance, human beings committed to all forms of life and defenders of them are being forged, also committed to peace, respect, inclusion, interculturality, in short, with the construction of other possible and sustainable worlds.