A joining between two public policies on environmental education and on old aged people

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the convergence of two public policies: the National Policy of Environmental Education and the National Policy for Old Adults. We show a comparative view of the similarities and the contradictions in the application of those policies by the public administration. Analysis of those policies indicates possibility of communitarian and institutional works where old aged ones could develop a relevant social role based on their past and present experiences, contributing to environmental sensitization of next generations. In this approach, we propose that old aged people - considering the summed experience - can act as advisor of an environmental education that offers to next generations a way to change personal concepts on environmental preservation, as a interdisciplinary inclusive work. To deal with those two public policies is a way to clarify and accelerate the implementation of key practices focused on improving personal life, environmental quality and interpersonal relations.