A abordagem das questões sobre educação ambiental no curso de Zootecnia da UFSM

Abstract

This work was accomplished of the Animal Science course from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, with the objective of verifying the posture of the futures Animal Scientists about the theme Environmental Education, to verify as the subject this being approached at classroom and to verify the main environmental problems found inside of the animal creations. They were applied questionnaires for the students that already studied the disciplines of the vocational cycle and for the teachers that supply the disciplines of animal production, totaling 34 questionnaires for the students and 10 questionnaires for the teachers. In agreement with the students' answers, most (79%), if it doesn't seat prepared front to the problems related with the Environmental Education, not possessing enough theoretical knowledge to emit opinions on the theme. The approach of the theme Environmental Education for the teachers in an informal way through the change of ideas and of the report of experiences in classroom. The vision that the students have knell the theme is linked to the preservation, treating the enviroment as something to the part, in his primary form. All of the students and teachers considered from extreme importance to the approach of the theme Environmental Education and the main problem found in the creations was the production and the destiny of the dejections of the creations.