Greening higher education institutions: a polyphonic analysis of academic production in environmental education

ABSTRACT Over the last few decades, the production and dissemination of studies that discuss the theme of greening higher education in the field of environmental education (EE) research has intensified. This study aimed to understand the different perspectives that structure the discourses about greening higher education mobilized by the authors of a thesis and a dissertation in EE that problematize this theme, defended in the period from 1981 to 2018. A state-of-art research study was carried out with an analytical-comprehensive perspective of a thesis and a dissertation in EE. For the analysis, we made approximations with notions of the polyphonic theory of enunciation. With the analysis, we observed the need to transform knowledge and the approach to environmental issues based on interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as to promote and implement practices for the insertion of environmental issues that may involve the university community and be present in the central axis of the curriculum of the courses.