Educação ambiental a distância: capacitação em documentos referência

Abstract

This research had as main objective to seek and develop theoric and practic subsidies for the upgrading of the Environmental Education (EE) through an experimental distance capacitation program of EE lined in documents which ground the EE: the law number 9795/99, “a Carta da Terra” (the Earth letter) and “o Tratado de Educação Ambiental para Sociedades Sustentáveis e Responsabilidade Global” (the agreement of Environmental Education for sustainable societies and global responsability). The methodology used was exploratory research. Ideas of authors as Leonardo Boff, Nana Mininni Medina, Rachel Trajber, Patrícia Mendonça, José Silva Quintas, among others are presented, which support the experimentation with their accurate view about the teachers performance in relation to EE signaling gaps perceived in EE practice and investigations. Confirming that most times EE is configured as punctual practices, disconnected and still misunderstood by the teachers.The capacitation program was developed in a virtual environment and it lasted 2 months, equivalent to 60 hour class. The participants were Teachers (13), Technicians (04) and Specialists (04) from nine different Brazilian states. The results confirm that the capacitation program promotes a bigger security in the pedagogical actions of EE developed in different contexts. The program enabled for the participants to enlarge their knowledge and experiences which contributed for a bigger comprehension about the EE construction process. Besides that it enabled the recognition of documents which ground EE as important pedagogical tool for the development of EE practices lined to its objectives and legit principles.