Percepção socioambiental e o ensino da educação ambiental de professores do ensino médio de escolas públicas da Cidade de Patos, Paraíba - Brasil.

Abstract

Environmental Education is a continuous learning process seeking to inform and raise awareness of attitudes to develop ecological and socially sustainable paid between them and the environment. Attitude is an important part of the affective and skills can be taught and perceived. Similarly, can be influenced by the cognitive, motivational and emotional and many researchers seek measurement techniques and promotion of attitudinal changes. The aim of this study was to evaluate and classify the profile of teachers in various educational areas (exact, human, natural and Portuguese), six public schools in high school in the city of Pathos- PB regarding their environmental practices within the schools and in the social sphere in which they live. The evaluation of ecological and attitude of teachers was done through the development and application of a questionnaire consisting of 75 questions. It was built on the model of Liker scale with five levels of responses grouped into four dimensions: Social and Environmental Practices in School (Dl),' Environmental Education in Practice Teaching professor (D2); Knowledge professor of Environmental Thematic (D3); Teacher Social and Environmental Practices (D4). The questionnaire was validated by assessing its reliability and internal consistency, with excellent overall Cronbach coefficient a equal to 0.95. The dimensions also showed values very satisfactory Cronbach a: D l = 0.83, D2 = 0.93, D3 = D4 '- 0.85 and 0.82. Teachers interviewed (N = 59) showed great variability in age (19-63 years) and teaching time (1-29 years), and that 64.6 % of them have graduated in the last 10 years (2003-2013) . The questions presented great variation in the response and consequently the score between them and among different levels of scale. The average rank of the teachers interviewed varied between 156 and 318pontos. Linguistically, the teachers were grouped in the following classification of general attitude: negative (30,41%), conflict (61,02%) and positive (8,47%). The data reveal that high school teachers of the city Public Pathos- PB. They exhibit predominantly negative attitudes on the dimensions investigated, suggesting that possess knowledge and/or attitudes still inadequate for teaching environmental education to high school students. Probably students are completing their basic education without adequate environmental education to be citizens more environmentally sustainable and/or with little knowledge critical multipliers need to be citizens of a more harmonious living with the Environment Environmental.