Central components in prol of education for sustainability: perspectives in social entrepreneurs

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the perspective of the coordinators of a social incubator and some of their social enterprises about the central components of education for sustainability. Therefore, we used a framework developed from the framework proposed by Tilbury and Wortman (2004), defining the categories of analysis for interviews. The realization of this research was guided by the study method of multiple cases and is characterized by being a qualitative research and descriptive nature. Study subjects make up a total of eight, three coordinators of social incubator implemented by a Federal Institution of Higher Education in Brazil and five coordinators of some of their social enterprises. The results suggest that the core components of education for sustainability have been experienced through existing practices, both from the perspective of the coordinators of Social Incubator, as the investigated social enterprises.