Reflexões sobre questões ambientais através da literatura infantil

Abstract

Currently experiencing is a serious environmental crisis and eases it is necessary to conduct environmental education. Therefore the aim of this work is to sensitize parents and students of City School Kids My Small World, Ijuí RS, about the importance of preserving nature, using as instruments books. To achieve this goal an initial questionnaire was sent to parents then also realized sending a bag with books related to environmental education and requested that a record was made by drawing or writing about what else found it interesting and used for storytelling history of children. In data analysis, the written answers in the questionnaires were categorized according to the discursive textual analysis, which allows, after the deconstruction and unitarization, identify the categories that emerged. Activity in the questionnaire there was a participation rate of only 56 %, and the parents who responded to the questionnaire demonstrated an awareness of crisis experienced reporting their causes, consequences and ways to minimize it . In the activity bag reading was getting greater participation in an index of 82 % and of these a large sensitization was observed in relation to the importance of preserving nature. In storytelling of history was perceived involvement and extensive participation of children. With these results the initial question of this work: "Literature can assist in raising the family with respect to preservation of the environment " was answered positively evidencing the importance of developing environmental education in the everyday life of a school child education.