A educação ambiental no cotidiano das escolas: Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental Andrea Parise e Escola Estadual de Educação Básica Yeté no município de Tuparendi - RS

Abstract

The main role of Environmental Education is to help people adopt a new attitude towards their own place. The expectation is that Environmental Education is the only strategy for effective change. The objective of this work was to investigate how Environmental Education has been worked in two state schools in the city of Tuparendi RS, as well as to verify the teachers' conceptions about environmental education and to analyze the pedagogical strategies used by them in the development of work with Environmental Education in your school. A questionnaire was applied with open and closed questions, adding eleven questions evaluated. With the participation of 20 teachers in total, different points of view regarding the conception of Environmental Education were observed. Most teachers said they have heard of EA. Where 86% of Andrea Parise school teachers and 92% of Yeté school say they work with EA. The predominance of pedagogical practices or strategies used by teachers is still based on orientation texts and the passage of content and projects (21% in the Andrea Parise school). It is evident that, since the initial formation of teachers, as well as in the continued formation of these Environmental Education, it is something more concrete and permanent, capable of strongly influencing their performance in the school environment.