Metodologias educativas e de capacitação para melhoria da qualidade dos recursos hídricos

Abstract

Water is a substance that invites us to study the Natural Sciences and their Technologies, the rivers of each region and their physical, chemical and microbiological characteristics, open up a range of opportunities to achieve the guiding methodologies of the National Water and Sanitation Agency (Agência Nacional de Águas e Saneamento - ANA), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN-Brazil 2030, and the foundations established for the New Brazilian High School. The entire framework of this research is focused on the effect of the course Educational Methodologies and Training for Improving the Quality of Water Resources on the participants, which was registered at the National Library of Records of Brazil (BNRB) as a free course of continuous qualification for teachers of Sciences Nature and Its Technologies under code C6X9F562. The research project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee through opinion 5,675,655. The research was carried out with 10 SEEDUC-RJ teachers working at Colégio Estadual Presidente Rodrigues Alves (CEPRA), located in the municipality of Paracambi, in the metropolitan region of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The research approach is qualitative, of an applied nature, with exploratory characteristics, where the adopted procedures were conducted by action research due to its participative character, democratic impulse, and contribution to social change. The theoretical basis of this work is based on official documents around the environment, where the classification of river water in a region is used as a reorientation of teaching, mainly in chemistry, being idealized in an approach of systemic thinking for teaching Natural Sciences and convergent with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Autonomy. The research carried out in this master's thesis demonstrates that the methodological tool developed had a positive impact on the researched teachers, contributing to the development of their autonomy, through the purpose of improving the quality of water in rivers, sharpening scientific research, and enabling a systemic vision for address today's environmental challenges.