Projeto político pedagógico e educação ambiental: da concepção tecnicista á prática crítico-reflexiva sustentável.

Abstract

Several Brazilian social institutions have discussed the capability of the Environmental Education (EE) of changing learners´ attitudes towards the environment and fighting socio-environmental problems. But, the environmental conceptions and practices carried out in schools can restrict such education. Thus, the primary objective of this work is to analyze the environment conceptions of the environment, Environmental Education, and environmental practices by verifying how the inexistence of the political and pedagogical project (PPP) has affected these conceptions developed by education professionals at the E. M. E. I. E. F. M Santo Onofre, E. M. E. I. E. F. João Pereira da Silva, Grupo Escolar Castelo Branco, and E. M. E. I. E. F. José Mariano da Nóbrega in the municipality of Junco do Seridó-PB. The study used a qualitative-quantitative research methodology through a bibliographic and documental analysis on environmental issues besides observations in locus and interviews with 17 education professionals. The results showed the existence of romantic and technicist views on EE with a bio-regionalist environmental conception not concretely developed in the schools. The inexistence of PPP in Junco do Seridó schools has affected environmental conceptions and practices in education because the environmental problems affecting the community have not been approached in learning-teaching process. Hence, this fact has kept EE away from social, cultural and political dimensions, impairing the building of critical reflexive sustainable Environmental Education.