Educação ambiental através da equoterapia: uma possibilidade

Abstract

This monography is constituted of a relational study between environmental education and equotherapy. The reasons that caused to the choice of this subject became from my action in the Associação Riograndense Equoterapia e Equilíbrio, in the city of Santa Maria, where, in the year of 2001, while academic of the Graduation Course in Special Education, I entered like trainee. We aimed, in this research, evaluate the efficiency of the equoterapy as an agent of environmental education. For achieve such objectives, we carried out a bibliographical research relating the two subjects, as well like the application of questionnaires to the professionals that work with equoterapia, in the Town of Santa Maria. The methodology used was satisfactory, in the its bibliographical aspects and field, permiting to achieve the objectives proposed. It was possible to carry out a study of inter-relations between the environmental education and the equoterapy, as well as to perceive that the therapy by the use of horse is a practice that promotes the environmental education through an interdisciplinary team and actions focused to the natural environment. It enables the deepening of the relations between the man and the nature and a better comprehension of its constitution as subject in the environment that is around.