Percepções sobre a educação ambiental e sua inserção no currículo escolar

Abstract

The ecological movements that occurred in the 60s and 70s in Europe and the United States were important discussions for society to understand how we are degrading the environment, due to the capitalist system through the high industrial production and the use of natural resources to satiate our consumption power. In this way, the Environmental Education began to integrate the components of the curriculum at all levels of education in an interdisciplinary way. In order for this theme to be worked on in school, the school curriculum must include the cross-sectional theme indicated in the National Curriculum Parameters to be developed during the school year. The objective of the present study was to analyze the Environmental Education practices developed by elementary school teachers of the final years, about the perspective of how social and environmental issues are present in our society.However, it was possible to perceive that the problems of the community are esplanades in the classroom, but the Environmental Education still happens in a discreet way, without its environmentalization in the curriculum. And so, inclusions of actions applied in the school would be important so that the practice of Environmental Education can be continuous and interdisciplinary.