Contribuições da educação ambiental no processo de ensino e aprendizagem em ciências para a formação cidadã do estudante

Abstract

Environmental problems in the contemporary world are assuming significant proportions over time, highlighting the experienced civilizational crisis, arising from conflicts in the ways of relationship between man and nature. In this current environment, environmental education and science teaching have very clear interfaces with respect to the study of the environment, making it necessary to act in an integrated manner from the perspective of social transformation. Thus, this research was conducted with students from the More Education Program of the College Augusto Eugenio da Silveira, located in the community of Sapucaia, in Cruz das Almas - BA. Such a community is facing a number of environmental issues that need to be addressed with a view to conserving natural resources and biodiversity present on the local biome. In this sense, the research aimed to examine how environmental education integrated into the process of teaching and learning in science can contribute to civic education student, in the face of environmental problems present in their community. As a methodological approach, we used the research - action with a qualitative approach in a descriptive phenomenological line. We investigated a total of 17 students who attended the 1st to the 5th year of elementary school, all residents of Sapucaia community. The collection and analysis of data occurred through a questionnaire and construction drawings that made it possible to reveal the environmental awareness and knowledge of students on some issues of scientific, environmental, participatory workshops being developed in science to investigate the prior knowledge and acquired by subject during the pedagogical praxis. As a result, it was possible to see how the naturalistic bias is steeped in the training of students, which did not allow the understanding of the environment in order to consider it in its multidimensionality, distancing the students that they will achieve the objectives proposed by Parameters National curriculum for this level. However, analysis of the data reveals possible the transition from environmental design to another, depending on how environmental education is inserted, especially in the teaching of science. The study also shows developed certain rapprochement between the representations of the Environment of students with the reality experienced by them, causing a gradual insertion of the human being in that environment. It is concluded that environmental education can contribute significantly in the teaching of science by enabling the expansion of environmental awareness of those involved and the payment of scientific and environmental knowledge, contributing to the political education and citizen action of being in the world.