Educação ambiental na escola pública: uma estratégia de mudança social efetiva.

Abstract

The environmental awareness of an individual or community relatos to the manner in which it or they observe the environment. This observation can generate or no contem, whether A.l .J..nA ann individual or collective, or even if it does not, it is important to work environmental education among interested individuais, which refers not only collective of working forms and ways that are linked to conservation and preservation ofthe environment. This, environmental education is a practice that should be included in school curricula se that it can be worked in schools in all subjects in order to clarify to the students and also the teachers what the real problematic situation in which the environment it is, thus arousing the interest ofthe same decide to take a position on the situation. Given the great tmportance of working with environmental xl. . .,- .: .n nf educatlon in schools arose the curiosity and the need to know and compare the vision of students of public school elementary levei in relation to environmental awareness as well as their interest in collaborating with the preservation of environment in all its context. The methods used in this study consist of questionnaires and lectures, traveling workshops in arder to meet the environmental awareness of students and present to the importance of working on environmental education in school. The results indicate that all respondents would recognize that environmental education is a practice used for the preservation of the environment and that although most the students of the public have already participated in environmental education projects, the majority of respondents raid they would like to work environmental education in their school. These results were expected, because environmental issues are increasingly deserving attention and on the other hand environmental education is a practice that arouses the interest of the students, which, in a way, contributes to the formation of a new generation aware in relation to environmental issues.