Por uma educação ambiental crítica/emancipatória: dialogando com alunos de uma escola privada no município de Rio Grande/RS

Abstract

A Critical/Emancipatory Environmental Education (EE) searches a reeducation of values, attitudes and affectivity with the environment, considering it as an action locus. In this context, is from EE that is searched a new view on the environmental collapse the post modern society is living nowadays. Therefore, the present work has as a reason the importance of socialenvironmental balance’s preservation, as well as the EE insertion in a school environment of a private teaching institution in the township of Rio Grande/RS. This research aim is to investigate, in a critical perspective, the presence and the possibility of the Environmental Education insertion in the school routine, through the discussion of the movie Wall-e. For that activity, was used a qualitative approach, using the participant research as a tool. Starting from the dialogue formulation with all students from the 4th grade and and a triangular interview with two students individually from this class, were obtained the necessary understanding to suggest the school supervisor the EE insertion as a transversal topic in a near future. The reports and perceptions about the theme were interrelated with the writing critical EE of several authors, as examples, Loureiro, Guimarães, and Freire. Besides, the search is to bring the insertion in the school sphere, for being a reorganizer between society-nature and also society-society. In this way, it is possible to realize that students understand that EE could change the environmental chaos, and also perceive the individual and collective activities that would help the environment to keep a harmonic balance.