Educação ambiental no contexto escolar público: desafios e possibilidades

Abstract

The problems of the increased of environmental degradation in our planet is the central theme of discussions in different sectors of the contemporary society, unleashing a series of initiatives which aimed at the minimization of such issues present in the current scenario. The general objective of this study was to understand the argument of professionals in designing a School Unit on environmental education, as well as its key challenges and possibilities having as specific points: identify the contributions of environmental education (EA) for the development of the school community; describe the pedagogical actions that characterize the conceptions of environmental education (EA) and sustainability; and to submit a proposal for the formulation of a didactic unit with an emphasis on environmental education (EA). Methodologically it consists on a combination of bibliographical research and a case study, a questionnaire was used to collect the data and it was applied to education professionals that taught in a public unit school "X". The analysis consisted of a qualitative approach on environmental education. The results obtained show that EA was not being addressed with requires the law, since there is still an isolated approach this theme by disciplines, resulting from the excessive load-time weekly education professionals that impact on lack of time for research and development of new interdisciplinary proposals, as well as the targeted culture, initial training model. In this way it is possible to consider that the continuing education can be a strategy of ressignification of concepts, new concepts and methodological approaches to interdisciplinary. However, there are still many challenges and possibilities that present themselves to the completion of the environmental education in the school context.