Projeto Mãos Dadas Santa Maria Judô: uma reflexão sobre resíduos sólidos

Abstract

The present study was a descriptive and qualitative research that sought to know the understanding of the students of the Projeto Mãos Dadas of Santa Maria Judô about Environmental Education and its importance for changing attitudes toward environmental issues. Thus, the specific objectives were: to know the social and environmental profile; identify how they discard of waste in sports competitions; to verify the knowledge about Environmental Education and the influence on changing attitudes toward the environmental issues and propose Environmental Education actions. Twenty-five students from the Projeto Mãos Dadas that train at the Colégio Estadual Tancredo Neves participated in the study. Structured interviews were conducted and spontaneous observations with photographic records in the seven competitions that the group participated in the year 2017. To analyze the data was used the assumptions of the simplified content analysis. It was verified that the students of the Projeto Mãos Dadas of Santa Maria Judô don’t have the environmental perception necessary to change their attitudes toward environmental problems. Therefore, from these findings, two Environmental Education actions were proposed: a visit to the Projeto TAMAR in Florianópolis, which allowed students to acquire knowledge about the problems caused by the incorrect discard of waste, and an educational game “A Trilha da Educação Ambiental” prepared by the researcher who will be donated to the students and thus provide, through play activities, an Environmental Education in a continuous way in order to modify their habits and become aware of serious environmental problems faced by the Planet.