Educação ambiental e qualidade de vida: uma pesquisa de percepção de alunos de uma escola de ensino fundamental

Abstract

Environmental Education is part of the educational process and as such it aims to form a population more aware and concerned with current environmental issues, endowed with knowledge and skills that lead to individual and collective participation in solving local environmental problems.Therefore, working on environmental issues in schools in the early years of elementary education is of great importance, because we will be forming citizens with critical awareness from beginning. The objective of this research was to know and analyze the environmental level of awareness and perceptions of the students of the Aruanda Elementary School, located in João Pessoa-PB, in order to contribute to raising awareness among students about environmental care. The research was developed in 2016 and carried out in two classes of elementary school, being a class of the 6th year and the other group of the 8th year, counting with the participation of 57 students. At the first moment of the research, questionnaires were applied, seeking to know the profile of the student (name and age) as well as the perceptions and conceptions of environmental issues and problems. In the second stage of the work, pedagogical workshops were carried out. The pedagogical workshop of the 6th year addressed the theme: "Recycling" and the pedagogical workshop of the 8th year addressed the theme: "The importance of garden in the Aruanda School". The results demonstrate in this research that the students are not yet receiving the appropriate incentive, environmental issues need to be more discussed and experienced in school, as well as in the family and community. Since the social representations of "Environmental Education" and "Environment" were categorized in conceptions eminently conservationist and confused.