Percepção ambiental dos alunos do 6° ano do ensino fundamental da Escola Municipal Cantalice Leite Magalhães: sobre resíduos sólidos e reciclagem

Abstract

Environmental Education is an important educational process that aims to create a critical citizen, trying to develop reflection based on thoughts, values and attitudes. This educational process is characterized mainly through a sensitize and conscientious vision, in addition to being fundamental to understand about environmental problems, issues related to basic sanitation and the disposal of solid waste. Therefore, this current study has the general purpose of discovering the perception of 6th graders at the Escola Municipal Cantalice Leite Magalhães about the Solid Waste and Recycling subject. The foundations of the qualitative and phenomenological approach were used as theoretical-methodological assumptions and the data collection was made through pre-test and post-test surveys. The research was developed with 23 students from 6th grade of Elementary School, group A, at the Escola Municipal Cantalice Leite Magalhães, in João Pessoa-PB. A pre-test survey was initially applied in order to make a previous diagnosis about the knowledge about the subject. After the pre-test survey, an expository class was made in order to understand the subject matter by making connections with daily life issues of the community and then four pedagogical workshops on the theme were developed. By the end of the pedagogical workshops, a post-test survey was applied in order to check whether the learning was consolidated. The results showed that the use of this type of methodologic strategy brought a significant gain to the students’ learning about the subject. Another relevant point was the active participation of students during the workshops, also the fact that the pedagogical workshops sparked the students’ interest about the importance of making the correct disposal of solid household waste.