Conjuntura da educação ambiental em escolas públicas no município de Cacimba de areia, Paraíba.

Abstract

The research wills to understand the reality of environmental education in public schools in the city of Cacimba de Areia, a city from the semi-arid region of Paraíba. The study aims to clarify the situation of environmental education in a place marked by serious social problems, often resulting from a wrong environmental policy. In this sense, this research seeks to answer how environmental education is constituted in the basic education of public schools in the municipality. The methodology was a qualitative approach, type of exploratory descriptive research, with semi-structured interviews applied to education management and semistructured questionnaire to teachers. The results indicate that environmental education is rustic and restricted in the school context, thus making it necessary to carry out an efficient, permanent and continuous pedagogical work, aiming at the formation of environmental awareness through formal and non-formal education, which can be a theme conducive to socio-environmental and sustainability issues.