Analise da produção academica apresentada nos encontros de pesquisa em educação ambiental (EPEA) / Analysis of the academic production presented in environmental education research meetings (EPEA)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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This work is characterized as State of the Art research and aims to describe and analyze the characteristics and trends of scientific production presented in four encounters Research in Environmental Education (EPEA), conducted from 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007. The 303 complete papers were studied from the following descriptors: author of the article, the home institution, educational level, knowledge, and the thematic focus of the study. The results provide data on the institutional basis of production, showing strong inter-regional imbalance of the same, which is moved to the South-south, in addition to the predominance of authorship related to the institutions promoting the encounters - UNESP, USP and UFSCar. They also reveal: (a) strong interest in issues facing the school formal, whichever works covering the various grade levels in a generic way (22%) or those pursuing higher education (16%) or the Final Years Elementary school (13%) (b) the lack of investigations on the Early Childhood Education and Early Years of Elementary Education, (c) that a large portion of production does not favor a specific area of expertise on environmental education (45%) although there are significant number of studies related to ecology (11%) (d) the predominance of research that maps or address the characteristics and conceptions of individuals (33%) on some aspect of Environmental Education, followed by a series of works focused theme in Theoretical Foundations and Curriculum in / for environmental education (29%), besides a significant portion of articles focused on Contents and Methods in Environmental Education (10%). The work also shows important elements for reflection on research in environmental education and the formation of EPEAs while promoting the dissemination of research in the area, indicating the need to expand and encourage the dissemination of the Brazilian academic production in Environmental Education.

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educational research state of the art estado da arte scientific production educação ambiental - congressos produção cientifica environmental education pesquisa educacional

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