Projetos de educação ambiental em escolas de Maragojipe (BA) no contexto da reserva extrativista Marinha Baía do Iguape

Abstract

The development of society occurred in order to directly enjoy the resources and environmental services, making social groups closely linked to the use of biodiversity that was around it. However, the increase of the environmental crisis and threats to biodiversity caused to intensify discussions on the use of natural resources and the man-nature relationship and man and man. Thus, this present study emerges from the need to confront the reality of an existing protected area in front of Bahia Reconcavo to the normative aspects of environmental education, aiming to diagnose the environmental education projects developed under the Marine Extractive Reserve (MER) bay Iguape - BA. The theoretical aspects involved regarding the Conservation Units, macro trends and educational projects in the context of environmental education. This study is classified as ex-post facto, also having the profile of exploratory study. The field of study was made up of 14 public schools in Maragojipe city(BA) and the headquarters of RESEX - Iguape Bay, environmental education projects developed between 2012 and 2013 were also analyzed and used interviews and records analysis as data collection instruments. The results point to environmental education projects guided by pragmatic tendency which do not discuss the social and environmental problems in the region, beyond the distance of RESEX with public schools. It follows that the subject has a great importance, since it allows an understanding about the environmental education projects developed by schools and external actors to it (NGOs and businesses), and what the relationships and can come into existence between schools and the MER - Iguape Bay providing the necessary changes to social and environmental problems facing the region.