Social and Environmental Diagnosis of the Sectors of a Public Education Institution

Abstract

Environmental education in teaching institutions, as well as in other institutions, can promote citizenship training, as it provides spaces for debates and learning about preservation, conservation and care for the environment that help raise awareness of these issues. Therefore, according to the importance and need to work with environmental education in educational institutions, we aim to know the socio-environmental aspects and carry out a diagnosis of how sustainability is approached at the Instituto Federal Farroupilha campus São Borja/RS. The research is qualitative and was carried out in the sectors of the teaching area and the administrative area of ​​the aforementioned Institution. Questionnaires were applied through Google Forms, involving the following aspects: survey of the consumption of natural resources; main assets acquired and contracted; completed works; environmental practices already adopted, mainly with regard to waste disposal; and training needs. Data were tabulated and analyzed qualitatively. Regarding the use of natural resources, a reduction in the consumption of sheets of paper was identified, which may be related to the new habits learned during remote teaching. Although the Institution develops socio-environmental actions, there are sectors that still do not carry out the correct disposal of waste, and this demonstrates the need for awareness in the area of ​​Environmental Education, with this, there was an urgent need for training for servers as well as for managers, so that they can encourage sectors and the academic community about these practices.