Ambiência UCSAL: elementos pedagógicos para a formação de consciência ambiental na ecologia do desenvolvimento humano

Abstract

The National Policy of Environmental Education was instituted in 1999 and regulated the implementation of the Environmental Education in Universities. The university formation integrates the process of human development and, in an ecological approach, substantiates the integration of the human being to the environmental questions for a better awareness of his actions and understanding of his future actions. From this perspective, this development was examined from the epistemological critique of science in the formation of the student. For this purpose, the potential of the university environment of the Catholic University of Salvador - UCSAL was evaluated, in favor of the construction of environmental awareness in the perspective of human development. The methodology used was a bibliographical and documentary review associated with exploratory surveys of the environment. In the first exploratory survey it was found that many students did not identify the environmental actions developed at UCSAL. It was possible to problematize the research topic, reinforcing the need for a contextualized reflection of the Socio-environmental Education discipline. The epistemological criticism answered the following question: Does the science transmitted to the students, assume dogmatic character, without reflection on the processes of its own construction. This questioning dialogues with the legal imposition of Environmental Education and contextualizes the human development. It also approaches the consciousness of body and space to apprehend an environmental conscience, basic presupposition to potentiate the behavior change of the human being in the environment in which he lives. The results of the research made it possible to propose a new form of Socioenvironmental Education in which the social is integrated reflexively. As a result of the formation in the Professional Masters in Environmental Planning, we propose the creation of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Support in Environmental Practices – LaSPIPAm, which will be a pedagogical and didactic resource for the practice of the discipline.