Educação ambiental na escola: uma prática indispensável para a conscientização ecológica

Resumo

The seriousness of environmental problems not only in Brazil, but worldwide, Environmental Education emerges as a tool for sensitization and training of the individual. Through it people acquire knowledge, values, skills, experience and determination that enable them to act in the environment where they live. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze how some teachers have developed environmental education in their teaching. In support of this study was with the contribution of theorists such as: Dias (2004), Guimarães (1995), Reigota (2009), Travassos (2006), among others. The methodology was qualitative research. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire administered to six teachers who teach in different schools. The research result showed that the teachers surveyed have worked in environmental education across disciplines and that the activities are diverse, creative and contextualized. The analyzed data also showed that most of these teachers have discussed in class topics that are part of the daily life of students, such as room: pollution, deforestation, global warming, among others.

Descrição

Palavras-chave

Educação ambiental, Escola, Conscientização, Environmental education, School, Awareness

Citação

AZEVEDO, Luciana Alves Vieira de; GENOVESE, Cinthia Leticia de Carvalho Roversi; GENOVESE, Luiz Gonzaga Roversi. Educação ambiental na escola: uma prática indispensável para a conscientização ecológica. Revista de Educação, Ciências e Matemática, Duque de Caxias, v. 4, n. 2, p. 1-11, maio/ago. 2014.