Prática docente em escolas particulares de Santa Maria: realidades e desafios da educação ambiental

Abstract

The environmental education is a topic of great relevance in contemporary society due thecountless day disasters that are presented by the media. Speaking in terms of environmentaleducation means rethinking the relationships of man with himself, with others and the naturalenvironment. In that case, formal education in educational institutions held in private and public isput before another issue of great importance. Therefore, to work the environmental education inschools is a challenge for the educators. In order to identify the presence of environmentaleducation, its concept and its strengths and weaknesses in teaching in private schools from SantaMaria - RS, south of Brazil, a field research involving teachers working in elementary educationseries is reported. In this work, a questionnaire aiming to do a diagnostic as the environmentaleducation has been worked with children was performed. Questions about the understandinglevel, the type of development of activities, such activities are prepared are some questions thatindicate that environmental education needs to be understood, thought and rethought by educators, so it can be capable of causing the transformations necessary to change present realityof socio-environmental crisis. Although present in the classroom, the environmental education stillis developed discontinuous, fragmented and not characterizing effectively as a crosscutting theme,as the official Brazilian documents suggest.