Avaliação da percepção ambiental de alunos do ensino médio de uma escola pública no Município de Teixeira - PB.

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the perception that students of astate public school located in the city of Teixeira, Paraíba, have on the environment, environmental issues and sustainability. The survey was conducted at Sebastiao Guedes da Silva State Elementery and High School. The target population of this study consisted of 14 students of the first year 1 and 21 students of the second year of highschool. Data collection was done through a questionnaire with objective and subjective questions. We chose to work with the environmental perception, because it is a method that encourages students to recognize and address the main social problems at different levels, in addition to being a means to identify and propose alternatives ways to overcome the problems. We tried to make a comparison between the responses of students with academic and legal concepts. The survey results demonstrate a degree of difficulty of the students surveyed, with students from the 2nd year showing more consistency and depth in their responses. The waste, deforestation, pollution of lakes were the environmentalproblems most often mentioned by the students, demonstrating that in terms of perception, they are well focused on environmental problems in the municipality. Environmental perception expressed by students suggests that the school had not implemented a program of environmental education or not treated it properly as a crosscutting theme.