Estudo com professores das escolas do município de Braga: percepção sobre a educação ambiental

Abstract

The approach of Environmental Education has been acquiring, through investigations, the outline of a new and growing presence between the areas and the lines of research within the field of Education. In times where information assumes an increasingly relevant role in cyberspace: multimedia and internet, citizenship education represents the possibility of motivating and sensitizing people to transform the various forms of participation in the defense of the quality of life. The objective of this research is to promote to teachers the search for more knowledge in the area of Environmental Education, bringing this reality that is lived today closer to the students. The study was carried out in three schools of the Municipality of Braga-RS, Adelarmo Nunes Municipal School of Education (school located in the urban area of the city), Valentin Orélio Sopran Municipal School of Elementary Education and Bento Gonçalves Elementary School in the field). Teachers were selected randomly, representing all grades of elementary school. Data collection was performed through the application of a questionnaire composed of open and closed questions, the content of which was analyzed qualitatively. After conducting the research, it was found that the teachers of the Braga-RS educational network do not have a relevant knowledge of the subject, but nevertheless they seek to work Environmental Education in an interdisciplinary and theoretical-practical way.