A percepção ambiental do professor da disciplina de Língua Portuguesa: do livro didático à prática docente

Abstract

The teacher of the Portuguese language discipline prepares the generations for the writing, orality, interpretation of texts, production of other texts, literature and mastery of the native language, in short, its literacy. The teacher also, has even more responsibility about the subjects worked on the textbooks, which must be current and within the context of the student. The environmental issues that have been presented should be taken as priorities in chosen and recommended compendiums of texts to schools. From a questionnaire answered during the period from 17/10/2007 to 20/11/2007 by twenty-four teachers of Portuguese Language discipline of Primary Public Schools at the city of Santa Maria-RS, this work was intended to verify the profile of teachers front their subjects, the textbooks, teaching and practice developed; what motivated the choice of textbooks; what are their difficulties in practice, if the students have difficulties in learning, where they improve their knowledge, if they use current issues in the classroom, and their knowledge about Environmental Education. From the results it was verified that teachers have good experience about the discipline, but 84% have a maximum of six years at the current school, and also they take over of four classes of twenty-four students per class, 70.83% have specialization course, and 33% do not participate on the choice of textbooks; and the practices have been worked (93%), but the students have difficulties in learning (46%); The teachers work with current issues (74%); and 68% have a good perception about Environmental Education. At the end of the study were compiled considerations and suggestions.