Educação Ambiental: o que pensam alunos do 4° ano do Ensino Fundamental.

Abstract

This research discusses environmental problems experienced everyday. In many cases we do not understand the causes of several catastrophic events, which has caused the fury of nature and which in the vast majority are caused by people who practice carelessness with the environment to which they are inserted. Thus, this research aims to identify which factors contribute to the environmental imbalance and understand what students in the 4th year of Education Fundamental understand about the environment. As a collection instrument of data we used the semi-structured interview, with five students from a municipal public school in the city of São João do Rio do Peixe -PB, and classroom observations, which served as a subsidy for better understand the view of students on the theme; considering speech during the interview and daily action in school. The theoretical framework was constructed from readings by authors who develop works related to Environmental Education such as: Souza (2002); Carvalho (2006); Vianna (1994) among others. This research is divided into three chapters the first, we will address the relationship between nature and man, in sequence we will continue discussing about The importance of environmental education in the full development of students, to conclude we will present Analysis of the data collected, the data collected allowed us to some considerations: need for a change of posture on the part of teachers and students focused on environmental ethics, as it is up to us to reflect on our actions before the reality in which we are inserted so that the change of posture is truly effective. It was possible to conclude that the students are oblivious to issues related to the environment, since that they do not understand about issues related to Education And on the action that man exerts on nature causing environmental problems. Therefore, it is necessary that teachers reflect on their educational practice and start inserting methodologies aimed at for the development of the students' environmental ethics.