Resumo

Anthropocene best represents a period, in which the human species impacts on nature equivalent to a geological force capable of modifying the planet's biophysical parameters (LÈNA & ISSBERNER, 2018). Unfortunately, the sustainability debate has already been established in an unsustainable society (SACHS,2008). The objective of this work was to investigate and analyze the Federal Technological Scientific Professional Education Network’s (RFEPCT) commitment to the environmental issue, identifying relevant issues raised by the Anthropocene.

Education has been recognized as the key to changing human behavior (JACOBI, 2003). Informational devices and practices combined with informational policy are considered drivers for culture transformation. The challenge is to build ‘sustainable development’ as: (i) economically feasible; (ii) ecologically appropriate; (iii) socially fair; (iv) culturally equitable, respectful and without gender discrimination. Given this scenario, how informational practices established in RFEPCT, contribute from a consumer culture for an environmental friendly culture, preserving biodiversity?

From the Foucauldian perception of 'truth regimes' - ordered sets of propositions, institutions and disciplines that organize and control discourses, imposing strategies for maintaining power, through a universal truth policy submitted to normalizing disciplines and sanctions - it is possible to apprehend the meaning that circumscribes the foundations of the Information Regime (GONZÁLEZ DE GÓMEZ, 2012). All in all, dominant informational mode in a social formation, defining who the subjects, organizations, rules and informational authorities: this encompasses RFEPCT environmental approach.

Regarding the negative aspects observed in RFEPCT internal environment, within Information Regime, the following stand out: (i) Budget restrictions; (ii) Majority of Environmental Management in the RFEPCT HEIs in the planning, initial or implementation stage. On the other hand, positive elements collaborate continuously on RFEPCT performance in its Information Regime were also identified, externally to RFEPCT member institutions: (i) Integration of Projects with other HEIs; (ii) Partnerships with Research Centers and NGOs; (iii) Support and participation by society.

RFEPCT members actions are carried out in isolation by their own areas needing an element to aggregate and integrate information, articulating their social networks. Henceforth, RFEPCT managerial priority was for the most part, motivated by economic issues or Public Administration regulation requirements. There is still a long way to go within environmental management in HEIs: in the case of RFEPCT, although there are educational initiatives aimed at environmental concern, its practice related to investments made to promote a greening agenda is still incipient in most institutions.

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