Educação ambiental como prática no ensino fundamental de Santana do Livramento visando à conservação, recuperação e melhoria do meio ambiente

Abstract

The Environmental Education (EA) is increasingly being inserted in the school environment with the objective of adopting practices related to conservation, recovery and improvement of the environment as a tool to face the current reality, in an integrated way building parameters of respect to the limits to the environment where you live. The EA through educational programs seeking to achieve goals like awareness, values, wisdom, experience and determination in the search for a harmonious coexistence with nature. It is up to the school the role of educating, instigate environmental reflections for that EA has positive effects in order to understand and react to global environmental problems. The general purpose of this research was to identify the practices developed by the Department of Education of the municipal district of Santana do Livramento/RS together with the municipal schools aiming at knowledge in EA. To achieve the objective of the research was used the field survey by realizing an interview with the Secretary of Education and the Directors of schools, and applying a questionnaire with the students. The results show that, agreement to existing legislation, the Department of Education and the schools are developing and inserting EA practices through a continuous training for teachers, holding meetings with exchanges of experiences, reports and cultural exchange, as well as science fair, activities in the environmental area aimed at prevention, care for the environment, recycling and selective collection of garbage both on school premises and outside oh this, such as community gardens, participation on family agriculture fairs, in addition to projects in conjunction with Universidade da Região da Campanha and the Universidade Estadual do RS. Students demonstrate interest in the subject and believe in the importance of insertion of the EA at school