Educação ambiental na escola rural buscando através da percepção num processo interdisciplinar uma aproximação ao centro de acolhimento de primatas e aves

Abstract

PRESTES, M. X. Environmental education in rural school searching for an approximation to the Center for sheltering primates and birds through perception in an interdisciplinary process. Santa Maria: UFSM, 2006. In the period of August to December of 2005 a research was developed in the State School of Fundamental Teachings of Bela Vista, municipality of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. The main objective was to stimulate the reflection of the school community of the Bela Vista district for an approximation of these in relation to the conservation of nature and the implantation of the Center for Sheltering Primates and Birds (PRIMAVES), through the development of formal environmental education activities to analyze and compare the comprehension in relation to the conservation of nature. For that, the direction, coordination and teachers of the school became involved in an interdisciplinary way in the programming and carrying out of the four modules developed with the students from the fifth to the eighth of the fundamental grades. The importance of the study through an integrate interdisciplinary approach developed a conservative reasoning that led the school community to contact with several environmental themes. The approximation of the group in relation to the understanding of the purposes of the Center during the several constructive discussions.