Meio ambiente e educação ambiental escolar: uma análise das pesquisas apresentadas no ENPEC (2013-2019)

Abstract

The Environmental Education (EE) is a process that aims to develop a collective and individual concern about environmental issues, stimulating the development of society's critical conscience and social and cultural changes. Hence it's important of being treated in all possible spheres, such as education, especially in Basic Education, where all members of society are formed. Therefore this work aimed examine how EE is being conducted in Basic Education from works presented in Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências' (ENPEC) last four editions 2013-2019. In order to do so this study has a qualitative approach with the method of categorical content analysis, set out in: Education overview; EE in Basic Education; research methods; procedures for data collection; currents in EE; environmental thematics; educational methods and teaching resources. Out of 225 pre- analyzed works, 83 (40%) involve EE in Basic Education, which was higher than other approaches like teacher education (25,7%). The analysis also showed a preference for High School (31%); ation research method (9,6%) and descriptive research (20,4%), despite the last one can not be considered a method; data collection by questionnaires (38,6%); critical current (44,6%); themes regard environment (34,9%) and a large part without evidence or having an educational methods in their works but with emphasis on dialogued exhibitions (9,6%) and educational workshops (14,5%). Despite some misunderstandings in the methodological area and to works without a educational method, which is very important nowadays, we believe that the results were satisfactory to a correct dissemination of EE that that encourages critical, reflective and participative thinking by the students and it's expected that they appear more works that act in an interdisciplinary way and address this educational level in it's entirety in order to contribute to a better formation of students on environmental issues, local and globally so they can become conscient and capable citizens to exercise their citizenship and act on improvements in the quality of collective life and assuming the environmental issue as an ethical and political issue.