A Educação Ambiental na Práxis Pedagógica de Professores de Educação Infantil e do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

Thinking Environmental Education means learning to look at the local and the global understanding its history, values, perceptions, economic and technologic factors, and the natural and artificial process that act in it. The school has the task of Environmental Education proposing a philosophy of work where the culture that direct the school curriculum, in the different subjects, organize the individual in the group and the group in the history. That way, working Environmental Education makes possible the acquisition of knowledges and skills capable of provide changes of attitudes, sensibility and conscience of students. This search had as main objective to investigate in the Municipal Schools (downtown, neighbourhood and rural) of Vera Cruz do Oeste Paraná, with groups of Pre-School until Fourth Grade (5 to 10 years old), the elements that favour or make difficult the implementation of projects of Environmental Education. This study worked in the qualitative perspective so the projects that are being developed in the schools were analysed and searched to understand how this process is happening with all get involved. The procedures to collect of datas involved documental analysis, interviews with semi-structured script for students of Pre-School and First Grade and questionnaire for others grades (Second until Fourth Grades), teachers, supervisors, coordinators and principals. The preliminary analysis must indicate the elements that facilitate and make difficult the implementation of projects and point some indicatives aiming to contribute for improvement and quality life of citizens, building alternatives based in the reality and they can realize and effective the Environmental Education of reflexive and critical form.