A importância da educação ambiental para a formação de um aluno cidadão

Abstract

For many years man has used natural resources irresponsibly, in a process of degrading the environment proportional to population growth and technological innovations, with immeasurable impacts, uncertain as to its consequences. It is time to reflect on the need for change because the Earth is giving us more shows not support such a high level of aggression. We are living in an impasse: in order to have more quality of life, consume using fewer natural resources and causing less pollution is no longer an option to be a necessity. Understanding that the transformation of reality is concretized by the action of individuals sensitized and aware and therefore citizens working in the construction of new individual and collective practices, this paper aims to verify the importance of environmental education in training students and critical citizens actants. In this context, we emphasize the importance of school as the primary means of dissemination for changing habits and paradigms, as is the space where the student, in addition to acquiring scientific knowledge, learn about social interaction, responsibility and citizenship. It is explicitly the close connection between environmental education and Environmental Citizenship.