Valores éticos e educação ambiental: algumas possibilidades na escola municipal de ensino fundamental

Abstract

Promoting Environmental Education in school nowadays needs to develop ethical values in students. This monograph emerges from an Environmental Education project at District Fundamental School Rejane Garcia Gervini witch exists since the second semester of 2002 and intends to stimulate the development of Environmental Education activities in schools located in wanting communities with the purpose of using the physical areas for the construction of kitchen gardens and gardens and through this instruments, integrated to the classroom, to develop the improvement of self-esteem and the students interpersonal relationships, respect to differences, valorization of work as a way to life improvement, incentive to a kitchen garden construction as an alternative for hunger decrease and utilization of areas that generally are used as litter deposit, to improve school meal, to stimulate students to take care and be responsible of the environment they take part to, reducing violence and valorizing life. This monograph is result of a interview with students that took place in the Casa Nova project and questionnaires to students and teachers of the school, as well as the continuation of the project in 2005, with one fifth grade class adding some activities to the kitchen gardens work, in conformity with the proposed objectives for the research with the respective class. Through the results we can observe the importance of project in students school life, because it promoted significant changes in both physical and students behavioral aspects.