Sociologia ambiental e ensino de sociologia: uma análise dos livros didáticos de sociologia para o ensino médio.

Abstract

This master’s dissertation examines the sociology textbooks approved by the National Textbook Program (PNLD/2018), based on environmental sociology and its major theoretical trends. The relevance of the research is due to the identification of study gaps in this theme and the relevance of investigating how environmental issues are presented within this didactic material, legitimized and proposed for public schools and considered one of the main resource for the teacher in the development of his/her pedagogical mediations. In this sense, this study was based upon the following question: how are environmental sociology and its theoretical contributions presented in sociology textbooks? Within this question, the main objective of this work was to identify environmental sociology in the Sociology textbooks approved by PNLD/2018 and to describe its theoretical framework. The research uses exploratory document analysis, with a qualitative approach and is centered on the content analysis technique of Bardin (2009) via categorization. In order to do so, environmental sociology compose one of the categories of analysis. In addition to that, we used its most promising theoretical perspectives for understanding the society-nature relationship and the origins of socio-environmental issues: environmental conflicts, risk society, ecological modernization and sustainable development. We Identified that the textbooks analyzed managed to address this new scientific field and its environmental issues, but in an incipient way and with gaps. Regarding the content of environmental sociology, that should be part of teaching programs, there is still no consensus among the didactic books analyzed. Additionally, the presence of this discipline is not certain, for not all books present explicitly the contents belonging to that field. However, we believe that the limitations may be due to the fact that this specific sociology field is a new one and is still in process of and expansion.