Educação ambiental técnica: percepção ambiental na escola municipal Francino Albino da Silva – Quilombo Estrela – Garanhuns - PE /

Abstract

Due to the growing environmental deterioration, it has become necessary the employment of new methods of preservation and sustainability, through guided aplication of Environmental Technical Education in the citizen formation. The present work was developed at the Francino Albino da silva municipal school, intending to arouse critical thinking over environment saving and the effects of anthropic actions in the students surroundings. For such purpose, there were conducted workshops, lectures and activities focusing on knowledge and thecniques of environment preservation, sustainable development and correct destination for solid waste, along to the environmental and cultural knowledge built by comunity members, in order to increase living quality in the evironment in which they live. The Environment Awareness Statement occurs by the application of questionaires that adress to environmental issues and its deterioration. Therefore, the environment analysis complements the environment thecnical education, in the means of being the instrument of evaluation of students’s degrees of knowledge, understanding and sensibility towards environment interactions, in other words, “nature-being”. The activities proposed at the Francino Albino da silva municipal school were performed in the I and II years of preschool education and in the first and second years of Elementary school, in which the aplication of the Environmental Awareness Statements was directed only. Miscellaneous practical activities were acomplished with the preschoolers and elementaries, enabling learning trough play, such as the crafting of recyclable toys, which helped in the development of criativity, critical thinking, environment preservation and wastage carefulness, favoring hence the building of child understanding trough ecologically correct values.