THE NORMATIVE INCIPIENCE OF ANIMALIST EDUCATION IN BRAZIL AND THE NECESSARY RECURRENCE TO THE NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

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ABSTRACT: This research aimed to demonstrate how the normative incipience of Animalist Education in Brazil makes it necessary, for its feasibility, to resort to the normative foundations of Environmental Education. The discussion about Animalist Education is relatively recent in Brazil, being stimulated by the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution, which innovated by normalizing, in simultaneous provisions, Environmental Education and the prohibition of subjecting animals to cruelty. Despite this, the standardization of Animalist Education in Brazil is incipient, limited to specific municipal and state initiatives. As Environmental Education does not oppose the animal cause, there is a need to investigate whether the legal norms that regulate it can be used to assist in the viability of Animalist Education. The methodological choice was for exploratory research, which moves between bibliographic review and documentary analysis. It was concluded that, although theoretical debates in favor of Animalist Education are legitimate, its affirmation as a new educational axis should not ignore the historical normative advances obtained in the field of Environmental Education. Even because, unlike Environmental Education, Animalist Education, to date, is devoid of its own educational norms, of national applicability, that ensure essential aspects for its viability, such as objectives, principles, methods, competencies and, among other aspects, skills.