Environmental Education as a tool for Education-Heath-Environment integration / A educação ambiental como instrumento de integração educação-saúde-ambiente

AUTOR(ES)

Amelia dos Santos

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The current work was carried out in the Bananal municipality, an endemic area for schistosomiasis mansoni in São Paulo State, with a persistent prevalence and expansion of the disease transmission. The presence of the endemy highlights the distance between Education-Health-Environment triad, shown by the inability of involved communities in dealing with the contamination risks. This study avaliated the influence of the knowledge on schistosomiasis mansoni by the students of the formal schools in Bananal, concerning on contamination susceptibility aggregated to other determinant factors of the expansion in the transmission dynamic and persistent prevalence. A performance evaluation register, based in the three learning categories - knowledge, understanding and application from the cognitive field of taxonomy of Bloom´s Educational Goals (1956, 2001), was applied on Elementary and Middle School students. The performance was assessed considering the totality of the students as a group vs. the sick students group, associating their knowledge degree with the standard human activities in their social surrounding and inter-relationship with the environment. It was observed a clear difficulty in all three learning categories, particularly in those related to application of everyday knowledge showing as a determinant factor in the contamination susceptibility of the disease, in both individual and collective levels. As a contribution to improve this situation is proposed a recommendation in the form of an Environmental Education Project that percolates the regular school as a tool for integration of the Education-Health-Environment triad, and be a powerful contribution for both teaching process and schistosomiasis control program, intending to help the construction of a better and healthier way of life.

ASSUNTO(S)

applyed ecology esquistossomose mansônica education-health-environment mansoni schistosomiasis educação-saúde-ambiente ecologia aplicada

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