A educação ambiental no curso de licenciatura em geografia do CFP/UFCG: uma análise sobre sua implementação na formação docente.

Abstract

The present work aims to study Environmental Education in the formation of teachers, having as main objective the analysis of Environmental Education in the course degree in Geography from CFP / UFCG. Considering the different perceptions of students and teachers on issues related to Environmental Education. Analyze yourself this proposal in the course, so that the trainees (future teachers) have the necessary knowledge to insert this theme in their teaching. The methodology covered bibliographic research, through a literature specialized within the research topic. It was analyzed whether Environmental Education is being proposed, verifying the documents (PPC). It is a research of qualitative approach, with quantifiable data from the interpretative analysis of the themselves, collected through questionnaires. These with semi-structured questions, carried out with teachers and students concluding the geography course. To the analysis and interpretation of questionnaire data, was based especially on Bittar (2007), using Bardin's content analysis methodology (1977). The results identified that Environmental Education is a specific discipline in the grid curriculum. It is articulated so that the graduates develop theoretical-methodological activities related to thematic. However, there was also a certain fragility with regard to theoretical and practical subsidies that favor training of teachers to work with Environmental Education at school, assuming the relationship theory / practice and its critical transfater earater. Research shows that the main challenge for the consolidation of this proposal is related to the need to review the approaching environmental issues at the top level, mainly in the formation of teachers, as graduates are unprepared to deal with issues in the light of the objectives and principles of Environmental Education.