Meio ambiente, educação e arte na perspectiva do Projeto Emcantar: uma contribuição à educação formal

Abstract

The research approaches the socio-environmental and artistic activities undertaken by the Projeto EmCantar, in partnership with ten public schools of Uberlândia-MG. The Projeto EmCantar is a Non-Govemmental Organization (NGO) that has as objectives the development of a responsibility with the space to be occupied, the dissemination of the popular culture and of the art as an expression of life. We decided to research and register the activities accomplished in the school environment, with students and educators, in order to identify an educational possibility to discuss socio-environmental issues which are analyzed and experienced by the participants. The performance of the Projeto EmCantar had its principies studied in order to analyze the formation of multipliers and the organization of its guidelines towards the partnership with the schools. For that, we attended the workshops that had a weekly program for the students and a monthly program for the teachers. The work was registered through pictures and interviews were done with the first members - that coordinate the present activities -- as well as with the other participants. The methodology was the research-action, to allow a better participation of all the subjects. When accompanying the CD Mutirão (collective effort recording) which was the second CD of the Projeto EmCantar, and the production of cartoons with environmental themes that had the children's direct participation, we verified the possibilities of reflection and action that were conveyed by the artistic language. The intention of our work is to contribute to the invigoration of actions that look for a new school culture, ruled by the interaction between society and environment and by the criticai and conscious participation of the school in the social context. We also verified that many innovative pedagogical practices are taking place in the teaching of public schools and that there is a will to consolidate an Environmental Education that produces the life quality that we have longed for.