Educação ambiental e a prática docente: os desafios da inserção do tema em escolas de Alegrete - RS

Abstract

Environmental education demonstrates its importance to be part of the process forming the subject, covering various topics and issues, assuming as part of the social process of behavior change generator through the complexity of the relationship of individuals with the environment. May occupy different spaces in cases where the individual and the collectivity build social values, knowledge, skills, attitudes and skills for the conservation of the environment, the common use, and the quality of life and sustainability. In this way, the thought of the school as a space of exchange of knowledge and social life, associating different times of learning, and EA's contribution to the creation of environmental knowledge, generating concrete content and new topics to be addressed. Part in this sense the teaching work with the function of flow the multiplicity of theoretical and practical knowledge, trying to articulate subjectivities and knowledge through education. Adopting a qualitative methodology for analysis of data obtained through unstructured interviews with teachers. Thus, we report the results obtained in the investigation process of the perspectives of teachers from two schools in the city of Alegrete/RS, about the challenges present in the inclusion of environmental education in their educational practice, as well as a theoretical overview of the EA and the profession teacher. Through the intervention in schools, highlighting the relevance of EA's presence in teacher education as a continuing need for (re) signification of knowledge, as their application in the classroom and school routine.