Teaching experience from a subject of social relevance: environmental sanitation - urban drainage

Resumo

This paper presents an educational experience which is based on a theme of social relevance. The project titled Sciences Today - a new meaning was developed in a public school in the city of Goiânia - Goiás (Brazil), for teachers and students and had as the main theme ‘environmental sanitation’ specifically urban drainage. Four groups composed of multidisciplinary faculty from diverse backgrounds were created with the intention of developing subprojects with educational practices aimed at exploring environmental sanitation with the students involved. Each group involved three high schools, a total of twelve classes. Of the four groups, only one has achieved the subproject proposed by members of the group effectively. The others had problems in the implementation of the subproject especially regarding its difficulty in fitting into the present school reality. However, despite the problems encountered, the school students involved in the project show increased interest in conserving the environment - which is verified in recorded videos and audios that are not objects of analysis in this article - demonstrating that environmental education can act as an agent of change in attitude especially when the students realize the integration between the content explored in the classroom and its socio-environmental relevance
Este artículo presenta una experiencia educativa que se basa en un tema de relevancia social. El proyecto titulado ciencias de la actualidad - un nuevo significado se desarrolló en una escuela pública de la ciudad de Goiânia, Goiás, entre profesores y estudiantes, tuvo como tema principal el saneamiento ambiental, específicamente el “drenaje urbano”. Fueron formados cuatro núcleos multidisciplinares con la intención de desarrollar subproyectos con prácticas educativas orientadas a temas de saneamiento ambiental con los alumnos implicados. De cada núcleo participaron tres grupos de un total de doce clases. De los cuatro núcleos, sólo uno logró desarrollar el subproyecto propuesto de manera eficaz. Los otros grupos tuvieron problemas en la ejecución del subproyecto, especialmente en la adecuación a la realidad escolar. Sin embargo, a pesar de los problemas encontrados, todos los estudiantes se involucraron con interés en la conservación del medio ambiente, lo que demuestra que la educación ambiental puede actuar como un agente de cambio en la postura, especialmente cuando los estudiantes hacen la integración entre los contenidos estudiados en el aula y su relevancia socio-ambiental.

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Palavras-chave

Educación ambiental, Drenaje urbano, Educación formal, Saneamiento ambiental, Environmental education, Urban drainage, Urban drainage, Formal education, Environmental sanitation

Citação

RIOS, Kelly Cristine Rodrigues Constantino; ECHEVERRIA, Agustina Rosa; KOPP, Katia. Teaching experience from a subject of social relevance: environmental sanitation - urban drainage. Journal of Science Education, Beijing, v. 16, n. 1, p. 20-25, 2015.