Serviço social e educação ambiental: uma parceria

Abstract

This work had as a general objective to verify the knowledge and the type of social and pedagogical intervention on the Environmental Education, developed with the pupils of 5º and 7º periods, of the School of Basic Education, Professora Maria Jose Valmarath, in the City of São Sepé - RS. The specific objectives were to identify the developed actions of Environmental Education in the school, to verify the knowledge of the pupils of 5º year and 7º periods on the Environmental Education, to characterize the related social actions to the environmental aspects in the school and to establish the theoretical aspect on the social environment. It was done a field research, of qualitative boarding, in which pupils of 5° and 7° year of this school answered a questionnaire. The results led to the following considerations: there were not social actions, like orientations about the Environmental Education; interviewed of 5º and 7º periods had some knowledge on Environment ,acquired at home and improved and stimulated by the pedagogical actions developed by the school; the school develops actions related to the environmental aspects, like plantation of tree and plants in the school; they stimulate the preservation of the Environment in works which aim the cleanness and preservation of the school area, stimulating the pupils to acquire knowledge on the Environment. According to the information collected in the City department of Health and Social Assistance, many families of the city survive collecting recycled material, but there are not specific social actions aiming this public.