O direito ao meio ambiente em uma perspectiva educacional: a efetivação da Lei n° 9.795/99 nos currículos escolares

Abstract

The course conclusion work presented consists consist of to analyze the effectiveness of Law L9795/99 in the school curriculum of basic education, in private schools, in the State of Paraíba, considering the principles and purposes set forth in this Environmental Education Law. In this sense, there is a discussion on the main debates and obstacles concerning the issue of Law and Environmental Education, in Brazil and in the world, since the 1970s; and, later, it is analyzed how Environmental Education, as a legal milestone achieved in the 1990s, through L9795, is effective in the curriculum of schools in the State of Paraíba, through the analysis of the pedagogical proposal of five schools of Education Basic private education network. It is a documental analysis that seeks to dialogue the official documents of the main policies directed to the environmental issue in Brazil — PNMA (1981); CF/1988; Environmental Education Law (1999) — , with EE guidelines exclusive to the school scope — National Curriculum Parameters (1998); BNCC (2018) — with the official documents of the schools, the curriculum. To build the discussion, there is a dialogue with authors who deal with the environmental issue within the scope of law, such as Oliveira (1982), Leff (2006) and Milaré (2016). With regard to research data, documents dealing with the school curriculum were collected in five private institutions located in the State of Paraíba, represented by the following municipalities: Guarabira, Mamanguape, Bayeux, Bananeiras and Rio Tinto. At the end of this study, it is concluded that there is a distance in practical terms from the L9795, a fact that causes its non-accomplishment. Environmental Education is understood almost exclusively as a syllabus to be approached in order to pass the entrance exams, and not as a way to reverse the self-destructive logic of abuse against nature.