Educação ambiental no cotidiano escolar: um estudo de caso na escola estadual Leonardo Kurtz no município de São Sepé - RS

Abstract

Environmental issues are a matter of social relevance today, because day after day we are bombarded with news of environmental disasters in the world, such as global warming, pollution and contamination of soil, water and air, the problem of garbage, among others. However, even with this finding, packaging is increasingly sophisticated and beautiful, but non-biodegradable mostly are not recyclable, contributing greatly to the planet's environmental imbalance. In view of the increasing occurrence of environmental problems, there is a need for a new awareness, behavior and commitment to this situation in order to minimize the consequences of these anti-environmental attitudes towards the future. With emphasis on these issues and in this context the need to address environmental issues in a popular and at the same time planetary approach. The alternatives for these socio-environmental issues defined the need of the present study, whose central theme is to suggest the school practices of environmental education routinely, presupposes, therefore, topics of relevance that will be considered and approached in this work. In this perspective, an environmental education project was carried out at the State School of Elementary Education Leonardo Kurtz, where practical environmental education actions were carried out. These AE actions were developed for second, fifth, and sixth grade students at this school, involving teachers, staff and management. This initiative has shown optimized and viable results for the improvement of the environment, however significant. Changes in behavior and attitudes of all social actors involved in this project are also perceived, thus enabling an adequate and better environment for living, aiming at critical awareness and attaining correct environmental values and actions and the formation of citizenship. The development of this work showed to all those involved that it is possible to build a new reality, taking into consideration the care and responsibility with the planet in which we live.