A educação ambiental no primeiro ciclo do ensino fundamental: implicações teóricas e práticas

Abstract

This work to investigate the applicability of laws and guidelines on environmental education in the first cycle of primary education. For this the objectives were a study on legislation and guidance documents work with environmental education in the school education meet through a questionnaire as these guidelines are occurring in practice and understand the guidelines relating contained in the documents with the analysis of the questionnaire responses to their applicability in school practices. This research has qualitative and data collection was first performed a literature search of official documents and then was developed and implemented in a questionnaire with fourteen teachers from state schools of the city of Santa Maria . Through the technique of content analysis, we determined the responses of the participating teachers who have no knowledge of such legal guidelines; however all claim to work with the subject in their courses of action. The theme and projects are the working modes adopted by them more to work with themes however the work based only on holidays has also occurred between the responses. The difficulties that teachers face when working with environmental education were quite varied, however much of these difficulties could be remedied with continued training, redesign of educational projects and greater involvement of the school community.