A metodologia da problematização no contexto local: contribuições e desafios para a construção do conhecimento atitudinal

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the contributions and challenges of Problematization Methodology for the construction of Attitudinal Knowledge regarding environmental challenges. To achieve this proposal, an action research was conducted with students from sixth to ninth grade of elementary school in a city in Santa Maria, RS. Thus, firstly, a conceptual discussion about the interrelationship between man and nature was approached, as well as the problematization methodology according to the Maguerez Arc and its relation with the possibilities of the development of Attitudinal Knowledge regarding the environmental challenges, a concept approached by throughout the discussion. Then, the stages on which the problematization Methodology is based were elucidated, and aspects of Environmental Education in the school environment that relate to the active instruments of that methodology are discussed and the possibility of developing attitudes such as learning to listen, to argue, to position themselves, to live in groups, to respect individual differences and the opinion of others stimulated through discussions developed through the Maguerez arch in order to encourage and promote criticality, citizen participation and environmental sustainability. The results obtained in this study positively influence the participants 'environmental attitudes as well as their knowledge of the environment, although challenges regarding the students' previous knowledge about the subject made it difficult to study some steps.