Arte e meio ambiente: a percepção de alunos e professores do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This research brings as a central theme the teaching of art and its transforming power for environmental awareness. This research has as a general objective to investigate art as a tool for environmental awareness in elementary school students and teachers. As specific objectives, it is intended to know the environmental perception of elementary school students about art and its contribution to critical environmental education; and what is the perception of teachers about their role, as art teachers, in the relationship between art-education and the environment. For a deeper understanding of the theme presented here, foundations were sought in the postulates of authors such as: Marques (2015); Gamma (2017); Carvalho (2017); Azevedo (2018); BRASIL (2017); Santos (2019); Freire (1996); Bueno (2013), Oliveira (2008), among others. This study presents a qualitative approach and used as a research instrument an interview that involved 10 students and 02 teachers from a private school in the city of Gravatá-PE. Data collection took place through an interview made by the WhatsApp application, due to the sanitary measures for the prevention of covid-19, adopted by the Government of the State of Pernambuco in partnership with the Education Department of Gravatá. The survey results showed, in general, that there is an understanding by the interviewees about the topic addressed. Therefore, access to artistic knowledge can provide students with a means of verifying the importance of actions aimed at greater sensitivity about the environment and sustainability. Thus, it was realized that students should not be kept far from themes that concern environmental issues. Within this framework, it is important to promote the transformation of students through the arts, leading them to sustainable awareness and care for the environment. The results showed that there is a basic understanding by those surveyed about the topic addressed. Art classes, as a discipline, can provide students with many possibilities to seek knowledge about the importance of actions aimed to raise awareness about the environment, sustainability and awareness and care for the environment.