Educação ambiental na concepção dos professores de ciências e biologia no municipio de Cuite, PB.

Abstract

The Environmental Education (EE) can no longer be defined by a single concept. This kind of education arises from the concern of humanity in themes related to environment due to consequency to the current disasters. In relation to Brazil, the EE comes with a more comprehensive proposal and became even stronger and present from the creation of its law which sought to think more about in a collective way not only an individual one. During the 70 (seventy) and 80 (eighty) decades were realized several international conferences and a variety of documents was prepared for the establishment of common principles to an education focused on sustainability, according to Dias (2004). Based on these concerns, researchers have intensitied studies about EE in Brazil, considering that it has sought solutions for the recent events. The process of teacher training is not related only a training and/or a means of capacitate, not even the transmission of knowledge, but in a reconstruction of values related to ethics that require personal changes as well as a teachefs reflection on his/her own image as a professional. In relation to the EE in school practice, we realize the need of make aware the population since the early years of life so that this education can do part of everyday life of children, youth and adults, be inserted in various subjects and contents, in an interdisciplinary way, at school and in life in society. This research aims to understanding what the Science and Biology teachers that are in classroom in several schools in Cuité, Paraíba, think about the EE thematic that with the arrival of the degree course in Biology on the campus of UFCG-Cuité, became more evident. This study was realized in schools in the city of Cuité between the months of September and October of this year. The data were collected through questionnaires with nine of the fourteen teachers working in the city and they were analized using qualitative methods. It was found that most teachers have a naturalist vision about the environment, according to Reigota (1995) and a eco—conservative view of what be environmental education, according to Medina (2010). However, they show enough interest in the area and would like to have more partnership with the university. It was also observed that most of them understand the EE as an specific subject of the scholar curriculum.