Educação ambiental crítica no livro didático de ciências dos anos finais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

We are currently experiencing a global socio-environmental crisis, influenced by how society and culture perceive their relationship with nature and even the human-to-human relationship. Environmental Education plays a fundamental role in overcoming these crises because it is one of the pillars for the comprehensive education of students, enabling them to develop skills that stimulate critical reflection on the reality that surrounds them and the appropriation of knowledge and wisdom in order to transform it. Thus, Critical Environmental Education stands out, which seeks to transform society and has an interdisciplinary, integrative and reflective character. This work aims to analyze aspects of Critical Environmental Education in a collection of science books for the final years of elementary school - from 6th to 9th grade. The chosen collection was the one that had the greatest distribution among state schools in João Pessoa - PB. The methodology used was Content Analysis, focusing the discussions on the indicators of Critical Environmental Education, proposed by Silveira (2024), whose analysis of the data of this research was carried out through Content Analysis. The results show that Critical Environmental Education is moderately present in the collection, opening up possibilities for critical and civic education, however, with some reservations.