Educação ambiental na escola pública: teatro em práxis peripatética como uma estratégia de desenvolvimento

Abstract

Upon the constant growth of environmental problems, it is necessary and imperative a new behavior based on ownership and active role in order to minimize the negative impacts on the community daily life and life quality of the planet. At this experience it was researched a systematization and analysis of an empirical experiment of Art-Education in which it triggered a curious positive change at Municipal School teacher Alexandrina dos Santos Pita on the outskirts of Salvador at Bahia State (Brazil). A place in which is found in financial difficulties, several social relationship challenges and a high level of environmental degradation/local depredation. Thus it emerges a main question “What are the tools to put in practice relevant actions for the development of ecological awareness?” under this umbrella appears another demand related to the local reality that must be analyzed for the better understanding and diagnosis of the current scenario, the case ParedeMágica. This case was generated from the use of performing arts as a tool for educative action: It presents a cognitive set validated by the students at that school surroundings; It considers some peculiarities related to the awakening of caring about the buildings; It shows experiences that reveals the construction of a local identity; It verifies physical aspects that reflects negatively in the school environment; It offers some possibilities to exercise practices based on the affectionateness and the caring, that reflects on the quality of the social relationship and also on the conservation of the buildings, furniture and equipment. The main results reached are related to the reconstruction of the school landscape and the change in environmental perception of the student´s community. It is noticed that performing arts (theater) together with education allows the construction of a natural channel of expression and feeling, which are required for the comprehension of the environmental reality. This intervention based work has its importance highlighted for users in Brazilian public schools because it suggests creative and viable solutions by pointing out some roads we have travelled in the Environmental Education perspective.