Educação ambiental no ensino fundamental: relação das práticas educativas na escola com as políticas ambientais

Abstract

The present research had the objective of analyzing, in a public school the relation of the educational, practices with the environmental politics advocated in the official documents according with the Federal Constitution, the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education, and the National Curricular Guidelines for the Environmental Education. The selection of the individuals was based on the 6th grade teachers of the elementary school, linked on the Regional Subsecreatry of Education in Jataí – Goias (Brazil). The theory was based on the conception of the Environmental Education through a critic approach, excelling the environmental thoughts and the environmental rationality, by Enrique Leff; the transformative educational praxis, by Carlos Loureiro, with focus cross-curricular and contextualized. It was adopted the methodology of research in loco, with qualitative approach. The instruments used were the semi-structured interview and the photograph files taken on the educational environment. It was established as specific targets to verify if the official documents from the school approach the environmental issue; identify if in the educational practices there was evidence of environmental thought; to apply a semi-structured interview to the teachers to identify the understanding of the environmental theme. For analysis it was proposed an educational practice, applied and assessed according with the critic conception of environmental education. As an educational product was dealt with supportive pedagogic material with orientations and instructions, so that it offers subsidies to the teachers from Goias elementary schools in the preparation and accomplishment of their pedagogical activities and interdisciplinary educative practice. The result indicated that is needed enforcement in the implementation of the Legislation that exists in the Country about the environmental education. Besides that, the team of instructors effectively participate of the elaboration of the official documents of the school and receive the monitor active support for environmental reason to promote the environmental knowledge of citizens.