Desafios ambientais na educação infantil

Abstract

Working on Environmental Education with Children can become outstanding when this work is different in relation to what we are presented on the curriculum and on school practices, where it is restricted on being sporadic, superficial and misunderstood, underestimating our subject the children , who are considered unable to understand deeper concepts, and denying any possibility of self dialogue or reflection upon the information that surrounds them. The curriculum is only focusing the celebration of important dates, which are restricted to one day, without any deeper debate concerning knowledge construction on the huge variety of environmental realities. Once having the problem, the challenge of working on environmental questions on Children Education was faced through action-investigation, using didactics material produced by the project Projeto de Conservação e Utilização Sustentável da Diversidade Biológica Brasileira (PROBIO), due to help on students awareness, families and communities concerning the supportive usage and conservation of the Brazilian Biodiversity.