Análise da percepção de educação ambiental em alunos de diferentes modalidades de ensino de uma escola pública de nível médio em Montenegro, RS

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the way on how students from different modalities of a medium level public school, located in the city of Montenegro, RS, perceive the Environmental Education, through the application of semi-structured questionnaires, aiming to elaborate proposals for Environmental Education that are possible to be applied at the school, in a way it will supplement the diagnosed needs and yearnings, characterizing a practical activity of the Environmental Education professional. Given that the teachers have the role of mediators on these students’ formation, they were also interviewed through semi-structured questionnaires with the objective of identifying and analyzing the existing orientations and the teachers’ perception towards the development of the conventional Environmental Education. In this sense, it was possible to verify that there is a distancing regarding the current legislation that supports the development of the Environmental Education and the school, since that most part of the teachers don’t receive formation and training for the development of it. Such reality impacts directly on the students’ perception of Environmental Education, where most of them reduce it to the natural aspects of the environment, conceptualizing it in a generic and disconnected way to the environment they’re inserted in. In this sense, it is urgent the need of formation and capacity training of the faculty’s teachers for the development of an Environmental Education that awakens the conscience for a healthy local, regional and global sustainability in order to build a more environmentally and socially fair world. Such process of continued formation for the teachers can be organized by the specialized professional in Environmental Education.