Riachos degradados: abordagem do problema na escola por meio da educação ambiental

Abstract

Streams are environments susceptible to negative human impacts and must be preserved. The holistic environmental education, if it is contextualized and interdisciplinary, provides critical reflection on a community social and environmental issues, raises awareness and subsidies to individuals experience and knowledge aiming the conservation of natural resources. Thus, the analysis of degraded streams issues mediated by the Environmental Education in schools, general objective of this research, is necessary to raise awareness on students in order to preserve the streams. The specific objectives are: to propose strategies for critical reflection on degraded streams issues; to understand the importance of preserving water courses, developing a case study with first-year elementary students at the Centro de Educação Básica Francisco de Assis (EFA) about attitudes that can minimize negative impacts to degraded streams. The methodology consisted in the development of a study situation as a teaching contextual, investigative and questioning strategy, which provided practical experiences, including dynamic, ecological path and critical reflections focused on dialogical relations on degraded streams issues. Those activities took place from May to June 2011 and gave students opportunity to analyze and rethink their relationship with nature and posture upon the conservation of streams. This paper concludes that the study situations are significant strategies to approach the Environmental Education in schools and that work at EFA sensitized on students in order to preserve the integrity of stream ecosystems and protection of its biodiversity.