Educação ambiental na escola: limites e possibilidades para o desenvolvimento de uma horta escolar em frente a abordagem interdisciplinar

Abstract

The National Environmental Education Policy states the need for environmental education to be present in an integrated and permanently throughout formal education process. This requires overcoming the common sense perspective upon the environment toward a vision where living beings, nature, the environment and the mankind keep an interaction relationship. This study aimed to analyze the limits and possibilities for the development of a garden inside the school through interdisciplinary project “Plantando a Paz”, applied in State Highschool Luiz Rogério de Souza which has the Environmental Education present in in the teaching of the institution. For this study there was an exploratory qualitative approach through a participatory research. At first a bibliographic and documentary research will be presented, in the second time field study based on speeches and experiences that permeate the school environment, followed by questionnaires. The project development provide an individual learning environment, contributing significantly to collective social and establish new ways to be, to act, to perceive, to understand and put in front of one inner self and its fellow men/woman. On the analysis of changes in the College after the implementation of the project, the results indicate that the inserted EA in an interdisciplinary way opens up possibilities for innovation in teaching practices, giving new meaning to the school environment and reflecting positively in relationships and in the reality of students in relation to levels of pass / fail and attendance.