A educação ambiental na prática pedagógica cotidiana no ensino fundamental da Escola Municipal São José, Comunidade de São José - Parintins/AM

Abstract

This work aimed to develop environmental education dynamics in a elementary school, taking into consideration the daily life, the students' relationship with the environment and the identification of environmental problems, from the perspective that the subject developed and approached in the classroom has meaning and application. It was assumed that in order for us to work in this dynamic classroom, there must be an appropriation of the concept and practices of interdisciplinarity. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the social representations of students of Elementary School of São José Municipal School about the environment, and from this knowledge, develop interdisciplinary activities of Environmental Education. The research was qualitative, using the conversation wheel technique and technical procedures of the participant research, where the students are more than passive subjects of the research but builders of their reality. After the students' participation in the conversation circle, the social representations about the environment were categorized in Anthropocentric, Globalizing and Naturalist and, from the compilation of the interviews, the environmental problems recognized by the students in the school and community were identified. The proposed interdisciplinary activities based their structuring on the central theme, the correlation with the disciplines and the syllabus, and the contextualization of daily life. As a result, it was found that the students' representations were the Globalizing and the Naturalist and from the social representations and the environmental problems presented were developed the interdisciplinary activities on the themes: Environment, Waste and Water. Throughout the research process, daily life was observed, making the researcher familiar to the school context, allowing to notice details that sometimes go unnoticed and / or are not recognized. It is concluded that using social representations as an instrument to know the consensual universe and from this proposing interdisciplinary activities, can be one of the means we can use in Environmental Education, since it takes into account the daily life and school knowledge.