O LUGAR DA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NAS CONCEPÇÕES E PRÁTICAS PEDAGÓGICAS DOS PROFESSORES DA REDE PÚBLICA ESTADUAL NO SEMIÁRIDO SERGIPANO. / THE PLACE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES OF TEACHERS IN THE PUBLIC STATE SEMIARID SERGIPE.

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

20/04/2012

RESUMO

Environmental Education in the last thirty years, has been demonstrated as an important way for the appropriateness of the relationship between man and nature. In this sense, understanding how man conceives Environmental Education is essential to understand how it interacts, intervenes, transform the environment and in the case of teachers, as this perception interferes with their teaching. From this perspective, this research has developed from a perspective of phenomenological inspiration, which addressed the bias empirical conceptions, pedagogical practices and difficulties of the development of environmental education in the municipalities that make up the Regional Board of Education Nine (DR9) in the semiarid state of Sergipe, namely, Nossa Senhora da Glória, Feira Nova, Monte Alegre, Poco Redondo and Canindé do São Francisco. Thus, the study then went on to answer a central question: What is the role of Environmental Education in the conception and practice of teachers working in the semiarid of Sergipe State? Having specific objectives: to analyze the concept of teachers working in DR9 on Environmental Education; investigate teaching practices developed by teachers in Environmental Education from their narratives, to identify, based on reports from teachers, the difficulties in working in Environmental Education scope of DR9, build a profile of teachers who work in Environmental Education State Schools in Sergipe, under DR9. To meet these objectives it was decided to make a qualitative approach using a structured interview with teachers to develop environmental education in the hinterland of Sergipe. However, the study also used quantitative data acquired through a questionnaire that merely responding to one of the objectives of the study, which is to assemble a profile of teachers who work with environmental education in that region. Through the analysis of the contents obtained in interviews and questionnaires, it was evident that the place of environmental education in the design of most of the teachers who work with environmental education within the DR9 is situated in a conservation perspective. With regard to educational practices developed through the interpretation of the speeches, it is noted that, in general, are concentrated in the following aspects: emphasis on the conservationist practice of environmental education, guided from the concern with the issue of garbage; concern about the deterioration of the caatinga, construction of educational projects focusing on environmental issues. Finally, faculty research subjects cited a series of obstacles that permeate their practices in environmental education in the semiarid of Sergipe. From their speeches, it was revealed that, in general, teachers attribute their difficulties to the absence of main courses to develop skills to improve their practices. Other complications noted were the lack of teaching materials specific to the development of its practices and lack of educational support for managers and team teaching units for teaching the development of projects with environmental issues.

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educação ambiental prática docente percepção meio ambiente educacao environmental education teaching practice perception environment semiarid semiárido

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