Diagnóstico socioambiental e intervenção educativa no semiárido paraibano: o estudo de caso do Bairro Jardim Sant'ana, Sousa-PB

Abstract

Cultural changes are a challenge to the reduction of environmental impacts and to the ideal of coexistence with the semiarid especially on the urban zones, where have a greater detachment with relation to the environment of semiarid. Promote non-formal education in this region it is of great value to the construction of a new environmental culture. This study had as objective to diagnose the main socio-environmental problems of the Jardim Sant'ana neighborhood, in Sousa, semiarid of Paraíba, and assess the population perception in relation to the environmental culture, well as promote educational interventions focusing on critical environmental education for the children of that neighborhood. In the first part of the work it is presents the socio-environmental diagnostic that was elaborated, which is an important tool to support the development of public policies of coexistence with the semiarid region. After, the results of the educational intervention, the project Ser-Tão Ambiental, are presented and analyzed. The methodology of qualitative and quantitative type was adopted using theoretical assumptions of phenomenological research and participant observation. From the analysis and conclusion of research it was evident the urgent need of connection between the population and the paraiban semiarid. The Public Power it is the fundamental actor in this construction that needs effective public policies to turn it possible. It was also detected by means of project Ser- Tão Ambiental the importance of non-formal education promotion to the ecological citizen formation and to improve in the life quality of population. So, the studies and interventions realized in this research, results in an approximation of those involved with the environment they live in although primarily, important step in a construction of a new behavior, sensitizing the involved about their ecological role.