Educação ambiental na escola: percepção e atuação de um grupo de professores de uma escola no município de Campina Grande/PB

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) is a cross-cutting theme and can be studied in all disciplines, this area of knowledge should not be confined to the classroom especially since it contains broad issues that relate to global aspects related to: ecology, economics, politics and the cultures of people around the world. EE needs to be valued worldwide to raise awareness, companies, industries and society in general to combat actions that damage and destroy nature. The present research had as main objective, to expose the educative practices directed to the EE developed in the initial series of Elementary School in this municipal school, then to look at a general analysis of the perception of a group of teachers about these practices, seeking to answer the following question:What is the environmental perception of teachers about environmental issues in the initial grades of elementary school? To achieve this goal, we pursue the following specific objectives: (a) Explain and identify from the theories and studies the importance of environmental perception in the school context; (b) Verify in the PPP of the school and in the annual planning of the teachers the contents directed to the EE; (c) Highlight the EE projects included in the PPP of the school; and (d) Describe actions developed by teachers in relation to EE. The methodology used to base the research is based on qualitative descriptive research. The theoretical framework that bases this research was constituted from the readings in books, scientific journals, articles and documents made available on the environmental issue in schools. We had as subjects of our research the team of teachers from the 1st to 5th grades of the morning shift. To collect data, a questionnaire was applied with open and closed questions to investigate how, or if the practice of EE and its pedagogical strategy in school occurs. The field research pointed out that there is lack of incentive and investment from municipal management to develop permanent projects on EE involving students, school and community.We also found that most of the researched teachers find it difficult to develop this theme frequently they have demonstrated to understand the importance of EE as reinforcement in the act of preserving and caring for the environment, to make them aware of their actions towards the students and of them towards the environment in which they live.