A percepção ambiental dos alunos dos cursos técnicos de nível médio da Escola Técnica de Saúde (ETS/UFPB)

Abstract

This course conclusion paper discusses the students' perception of technical courses at the Technical School of Health of the Federal University of Paraíba (ETS-UFPB). In this sense, based on the literature and on the theoretical and methodological foundations that surround it, we aim to investigate which currents of environmental education are present in the perception of the students, thus analyzing the aspects of Environmental Education present, as well as identifying whether they are characterized as reductionist or critical - reflective. We start from the assumption that environmental education is present in their education. To theoretically base our work, we rely on the conceptions of Carvalho (2004), Guimarães (2004), Layrargues (2009), Sauvé (2005), among others, who helped us to reflect on environmental education. The research is characterized as qualitative with the technical health school of the Federal University of Paraíba as the locus in which we used as a data collection instrument the semistructured questionnaire applied to students who aroused the interest to participate in the mine course offered by the members of the research project. extension entitled “Environment and human action: an educational-environmental action at the Technical School of Health at UFPB”, the study allowed us to identify through the collection of data and analyzing from the currents of environmental education, that Environmental Education is characterized as reductionist.