Educação ambiental objetiva nas faculdades/universidades privadas no município de Santa Maria - RS e suas localizações espaciais

Abstract

This work has the main goal to understand the environmental thematic that regards to environmental educa-tion at the college level, and then it was necessary to quantify the level of knowledge of environmental the-matic, often to their students as researched tract. To achieve this proposal were surveyed students knowledge level of higher education, of the Colleges / Universities privates existing in the city of Santa Maria - RS, on the environmental thematic facing the Renewable Natural Resources in its practicality and objective. To do so was made the spatial distribution of Colleges / Universities Private, the municipality of Santa Maria in order to seek a better representation and its localization. Through the use of assessment instruments were checked levels of knowledge in the students because of this we could work out the best way to enter in this community, the knowledge needed to understand sustainability environment as a whole, through the presen-tation of a program, being developed in ongoing research to fill the gap detected in environmental knowledge. The results show that knowledge of environmental issues in teaching and upper is very weak compared to similar work developed by Dra. Cleonir Martins Carpes in his PhD thesis, one can say with ab-solute certainty, that knowledge of environmental issues by students from private schools of higher education in Santa Maria, referring to the Renewable Natural Resources, is vastly inferior to knowledge of the same subject by students of public schools of primary and secondary education in the same municipality. Mathe-matical analysis and statistics confirm the report.