A formação de educadores ambientais em um curso de Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas: uma análise a partir da ambientalização curricular crítica

Abstract

Starting from the understanding that the current environmental crisis is generated and intensified by the process of industrialization, which tragically characterizes the moment experienced by humanity in this century, We have Critical Environmental Education as a form of systemic opposition and as an effort to overcome the environmental degradation generated by humanity under the neoliberal capitalist mode of production and accumulation. In this sense, we have the university as a privileged space in what refers to the reflection, elaboration and diffusion of new knowledge in the area of education and environment, being essential, therefore, to the formation of environmental educators teachers. Regarding the process of teacher training, the curriculum is one of the main pillars of structuring p edagogical processes, being of vital importance to understand the training processes of the teacher. It is in this context that the discussion of Curricular Environmentalization is inserted, a term used to address the insertion of the environmental dimension in the curriculum. It is established, therefore, the general objective of this research: to understand if there are, in terms of curriculum and curricular environmentalization, possibilities of training critical environmental educators in the Biological Sciences Degree course of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). This is a qualitative research divided into two stages: literature review and documentary analysis. To analyze the data obtained from the documents, Bardin’s content analysis technique wa s used, from the theoretical frameworks of analysis of the level of curricular environmentalization proposed by Red ACES that were used as categories of analysis. As a result, the research presents a theoretical work of approximation between Critical Environmental Education and Curricular Environmentalization, seeking, therefore, a Critical Curricular Environmentalization; it also reaches the conclusion that, in terms of PPC environmentalization, of the menus and teaching plans of the disciplines, the course presents concretely possible possibilities of critical training of environmental educators, although with some caveats.