Percepção sobre o ensino da educação ambiental de alunos pré-concluintes e professores dos cursos de licenciatura das Faculdades Integradas de Patos.

Abstract

This work has the titled Perception on the teaching of environmental education of students pre-graduates and teachers of undergraduate courses of Faculdades Integradas de Patos (FIP). The analysis was with students from four apprentice courses - History, Geography, Literature and Pedagogy – of the FIP, higher education institution, located in Patos - Paraíba. Were involved in the study, 11 teachers in a universe of different areas. The research has also student segment, a trial of 27 students. The purpose was to identify the perceptions of environmental education in formal pre-graduating students and teachers in these apprentice courses, as well as observing the knowledge these students on environmental education and identify the teacher training institution is adequately preparing future professionals. To obtain the facts were questionnaires containing open and closed questions. In the face of being a legal requirement and normative insertion of environmental education, the responses of both segments showed the weaknesses of the approach to the subject, a fact that comes to concern for the environment, since it goes out that future teachers are not being prepared to act adequately in basic education.