Educação ambiental e práticas pedagógicas: realidades e desafios

Abstract

Environmental Education is a multidimensional theme, that is, it can be included in all subjects, as learning is based on interdisciplinarity. It is essential in the educational evolution of society that is adapting to the new world reality, which calls for a commitment to sustainable growth. Based on this perspective, it is necessary to introduce the environmental issue in a sensitizing way, providing opportunities for the students' perception of the need for care and respect aimed at a social commitment to the environment. In this line of thought, we can understand that the school, as it integrates society and plays a crucial role in education, can play an important role in social mobilization. Certainly, teachers as subjects of institutional reference, potentially, are key pieces in the composition of scenarios that favor the articulation of social responses to socio-environmental demands. The images of the teachers that mark my trajectory were the effort they made so that the students understood the contents and that they had a good performance. In the eyes of the teachers, their desire for students to make the most of each learning and teaching was clear. The relevance of this study is reaffirmed by the fact that Environmental Education is in charge of a teacher responsible for this practice in schools. The data obtained allowed the understanding of important characteristics of the thinking and action of these teachers.