Limites e possibilidades da educação ambiental crítica em escolas: estudo de caso em uma escola estadual do Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the limits and possibilities of inserting the critical environmental education in schools. Through the Participatory Research methodology, a group of extracurricular activities in EE (Environmental Education) was implemented with high school students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro, which its main objective was to foster the construction of the critical view of students in relationship to environmental issues and, through the recovery of school outdoors, encourage teachers to adopt these areas in regular classes. Due to factors such as teachers and bus drivers strike, the difficulty to keep students at school in extra classes time and the lack of support from teachers and direction, the group's activities were closed before the end of school year. From the difficulties encountered with research in school, we sought to analyze, through the available literature, the inclusion of the EE in the State of Rio de Janeiro and thus try to understand the limits and possibilities of developing the EE critical in schools that state. We compared three studies that investigated the insertion of the EE in the Southeast, in the Baixada Fluminense and in Teresópolis. The main possibilities identified were the inclusion of the EE in the school PPP (Political Pedagogical Project); coordination with the local community; insertion through specific discipline. The main limits finded were the devaluation of the teaching workforce; the indication of public policies for the realization of EE in an interdisciplinary way, regardless of disciplinary base of schools; the school's isolation from the community; the weakness in the training of teachers. Thus it was found that there are several obstacles to be overcome and that many of these problems are structural in brazilian education.