Ações em educação ambiental e suas relações com a interdisciplinaridade e cidadania: o caso do projeto social “Educação Ambiental na Vila Kennedy”

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the limits and possibilities which permeate the relationship “environmental education-subject connection-citizenship”. So, we tried to clarify what possible transformations social projects on environmental education may stimulate in an established formal educational scenery, through interdisciplinary educative actions and those which stimulate citizenship. Having as a research object the social project “Environmental Education in Vila Kennedy”, promoted by Centro Multidisciplinar de Pesquisa e Ação – CEMPA, this work was developed together with Creche Municipal Fiori Druck in Vila Kennedy, Santa Maria – RS, during the school year of 2007. As basis for the research resource, we used techniques of participant’s observation, reports and interviews half-structured with people from the school community and from the social project. The qualitative analysis made considers the analyzed project for beyond the school space, taking into consideration the influence that actions in environmental education may have originated in daily life of people involved and how they promoted citizenship exercise throughout the community. This final paper is based on the following issues: a) enlargement of the community understanding about the topic environment; b) possibility of overcoming the disciplinary structure; c) insertion of the topic environment in the school subjects. It showed possible daily indications of limitations and perspectives that social projects on environmental education, developed in state schools and urban communities, may present during their process.