YOUTH AND INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOL: FOR A POSSIBLE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

This article deals with the relationship between environmental management, public policy and professional education. Based on the question: How public policies interfere in the environmental management process and to what extent this relationship is reflected in education today? We aim to identify the impact in education, the interference of public policies in the environmental management process. Thus, we performed a brief literature on this theme, conceptualizing it and contextualizing it, and analyze content / assigned responses to a questionnaire applied to a Ecologist, Environmental Consultant. As a reference authors use as Azevedo (2011), BRAZIL (2007), Cavalcanti (1997), GUTIERREZ and PRADO (2008), Lanna (1995), LEFF (2010), Loureiro (2008), among others, as well as some laws regulatory of the theme. At the end of the study, we identified that public policies related to environmental area are configured as an environmental management tool, while the education (including vocational), is another strategic tool for environmental management. We therefore conclude that education, public and environmental management policies are closely connected.