Universidades sustentáveis: ambientalização curricular nos cursos de engenharia do Unisalesiano – Araçatuba/SP

Abstract

Faced with environmental problems caused by human development, higher education institutions have played an important role in the formation of human resources capable of changing environmental reality. The main objective to verify the curricular environmentalization indicators of the UniSalesiano Engineering courses at the campus of the city of Araçatuba, São Paulo. As a methodology, the PDI and PPCs analyzes of five Engineering courses (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Computing and Mechatronics) were performed through a documentary survey based on the presence of the radicals: ambient *, sust *, natur *, ecolog *, soc * and conserv *. To quantify the radicals, we used the "find" tool of the Microsoft Word® text editor. All evaluated radicals were found in the documents, except for the Mechatronic Eng. PPC, which did not present the ecolog * and conserv * radicals. The most frequent radical was soc * followed by the ambient radical * while the other indicators were present in a smaller number. The results show that the environmental concern is expressed in the Pedagogical Project of the Course and in 12 of the Teaching Plans. Therefore, environmental concern has been an aspect present in institutional documents, although few pedagogical policies have brought this concern transformed into guidelines and curricular practices. It is concluded that UniSalesiano presents evidence of environmentalization in the PDI and PPCs in Engineering courses, indicating that the documents have a low degree of environmentalization.