FARIAS, T. J. V.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4541940186154961; FARIAS, Tiago José Vasconcelos de.
Abstract:
The reductionist around the term 'environment' has often been observed in the pedagogical routine of educational institutions, these when deal with such problematic, are limited to a merely ecological-naturalist understanding, a fact that proves the need for to enable the development of didactic strategies capable of reaching these formative spaces and resignify knowledge of this nature. In this sense, the introduction of Educação Ambiental (EA) [Environmental Education] in schools at all levels and modalities of education can contribute to produce changes in behavior, attitudes and values, in order to defend, conserve and preserve the Environment for the present and future generations. Thus, the research aimed to investigate the perception of EA that holds students and educator in the context of teaching geography in fundamental education at the school EEEFM Coronel Serveliano de Farias Castro in the municipality of Caraúbas – PB. We concluded that this restlessness originated from practice of teacher of fundamental education in the process of formation in the Interdisciplinary degree of Rural Education at the Sustainable Development Center of the Semi-arid at Federal University of Campina Grande, participant of the research group 'Rural Education and its relationship with the Teaching of Geography and EA’. In this work, we used the presupposition of qualitative and quantitative research, to search for to investigate and understand the environmental perception from the geographical foments of students and educator of the Geography curriculum component of the 9th grade of that school. In this, questionnaires with students and educator were applied. It was identified at the end of the work that the character participating in the research do not perceive the EA in its entirety, associating it merely to natural factors, adverse practice of so-called consumerist society and contemporary EA to rumors of capital internationalization, as well as to today's geographical thinking.