Caminhada na natureza: prática alternativa de educação física escolar para fins de educação ambiental

Abstract

The environmental education searches for a communion with the fundamental principles of participation, citizenship, autonomy and maintenance looking for prior education, in which its epistemological and methodological basis can help to form citizens able to face the social environmental challenges that in many cases are products of its own action. Many are the ways to the promotion of environmental education should nurture the curriculum of the objects, thus the physical education classes, promoting a walk in natural environments. This present work tries to identify the specifications that are being developed in this area and the way physical education is seen, dealing with the possibilities of this differential discipline that favors the learning of certain subjects. Specially, in this case of environmental education and it’s possible relation with physical education as a complement of one to another by means of promenades in natural environments. It was also investigation in this perspective how effective this activity and benefits. It was necessary to select two classes of different schools, where one did the walking activities while the second didn’t. Both classes went through a questioner with themes related to the natural environment, which was made a comparison of the perception of the two classes. The conclusion was that natural promenades are effective in the learning process, though it was possible to see that, relating to the environmental perception the students of both classes had similar points of view. However, in the behavioral part about the environment trough nature had more significant results.