Educação ambiental no contexto escolar: análise dos artigos publicados na Revista Eletrônica Educação Ambiental em Ação (2020 a 2022)

Abstract

Environmental education (EE) needs to be a permanent and participatory process in everyday school life. It has the power to transform attitudes, through knowledge, providing the student with a range of information, which will make him have a different look at environmental issues, transforming them into possible multiplying agents. EE provides a transformation of thought, which will reflect in the change of our actions passing the see us as an integral part of it. The consequences and interfaces of this relationship bring us an awareness of the importance of environmental preservation, for the maintenance of life. Thinking about it, this work aimed to investigate how EE has been worked on in b asic education from the last editions of the Journal EE in Action (EEA) of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. The study in question had a qualitative approach and the method used and categorical content analysis, divided into: Overview; EE in Basic Education; Methodological Approach; research methods; Data collection technique; EE currents; Environmental themes and Modalities and didactic resources. Of the 131 pre-analyzed works, 42 of them involved EE in Basic Education. Being teacher training. The analysis also revealed a preference for Elementary Education (EF); action research method; Non-methodological procedures that include descriptive and exploratory research despite this not being a method; data collection through questionnaires; the critical current, in; themes related to the environment and, finally, a large part without evidencing or having a modality or resource in their works, but having as highlights the dialogued expository modality and the resource multimodality of resource of the works that were analyzed, most of them refer to the years in which the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (virus that causes COVID 19) began. Parks, with the participation of the residents who live around them, traditional communities, squares and environmental reserves, all with the participation of the community and also work aimed at health professionals in hospitals. There was a significant increase in theoretical EE work, it is believed that this was due to the pandemic, as schools were closed for a good period.