A educação ambiental no curso de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, na percepção dos recém-formados

Abstract

The contemporary problematic environmental has arouse the attention of many countries for the current foundations that support the passage of the human being species on the Earth. Ambient crisis has provoked reflections, causing the sensation of that we opt to ways that lead us, until the present moment, to the destruction of the conditions of survival in the planet. In this context, the Environmental Education comes receiving in the last decades an attention from scientific character, provoking bigger social mobilization. The educative system has been elect as an essential segment in the fight for the present and the future preservation of the planet. Since April 1999, Brazil started to possess an environmental legislation that makes use, among others, about the environmental dimension in the teachers formation programs. This research searched to perceive which is the emphasis given for the Environmental Education in the courses of initial formation of teachers since it is about a transversal subject and, therefore, it must be treated by all the disciplines. However, the limitations before so including search, lead us to the boarding of only one of these courses. Thus, we choose of Biological Sciences, given in the Federal University of Uberlândia. In order to reach more enlightening results than mere survey of similar disciplines, we opted for a phenomenological method that searches the understanding of the phenomenon through the lived experience, or either, the retum to the lived world. The participants of the research had just been graduated in the course of Biology who had attended the modality of Degree course. The participants of the research had been requested to discourse on the following general question: Which was the attention granted to the Environmental Education in your course? In what moment did it happen? In what way was it? After the collection of data, we proceeded to the stages of transcription and analysis, according to the presented method. First we carried out the Ideograph analysis that happens in the individual levei. Then, we carried out the Nomothetic analysis that happens in general levei, approaching and distancing the participant citizens in order to understand the phenomenon as a whole. The results of this study had disclosed that, although it does not appear in the curricular grating of the course, the Environmental Education comes occupying some spaces from the initiative of some teachers and students. The formation of a nucleus of Environmental Education, as well as the occurrence of the thematic in the PET and the Scientific Week are indications of this presence in the course. Another evidence is that the Degree Course approaches more the subject than the Bachelor. The interviewed ones, in contrast with the ambient educators guide, defend the inclusion of Environmental Education as a discipline in the course. Although these changes are occurring, in the point of view of the just-graduated ones, the course has as main focus the research of contents of specific disciplines and it is distant of an adjusted treatment for the Environmental Education.