As representações do bioma caatinga a partir de desenhos de alunos do segundo segmento do ensino fundamental da cidade de Monte Horebe- PB.

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the representations from students of Middle School of "Escola Municipal de Ensino Infantil e Fundamental Jose Dias Guarita", located on the city of Monte Horebe - PB, considering that it will indicate the relation between the students with the biome that they are inserted. For the concretization of the objective of this work, the methodology was organized from the following procedures: 1 - Theoretical reflections considering to comprehend the specificities of the Caatinga Biome, as the theoretical bases that guide the discussion about the social representations from the drawings; 2 - We have requested the confection of 40 drawings from the students from the 7t h grade "B" and "C" classes of the Middle School of the referred school, intending to analyze how those drawings represented the biome of caatinga and i f there was a sense of ambiental preservation on them; 3 - We have analyzed the drawings having as reference the elements which were represented, aiming the organization of those elements in themes: I) The drought period in the Caatinga; II) The rainy period in the Caatinga. After the emergence of the themes, two new subthemes have appeared: natural landscape and humanized landscape in the Caatinga, which when analyzed helped to comprehend the values assigned by the subjects envolved with the biodiversity of the Biome, considering the differences related to age, gender, previous knowledge and the values represented by them in relation to the Caatinga. Therefore, when the representations are analyzed, it was observed that there are no significative differences related to age, because the students are in the same age group. When it comes to gender, the differences are quite significant, because the boys represent the Caatinga with a larger abundance of details than the girls. In this way, it is suggested that these students possess knowledge related to the Biome, however, there is no sense of ambiental preservation, in the representations, which points to the necessity for treatment of the ambiental issues inside the classroom, which would contribute to the construction of notions related to the Ambiental Education, a necessary element to these juvenile people.