Educação ambiental: percepção da temática entre os discentes e docentes do Curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia

Abstract

This research had as objective to analyze the perception of the environmental theme in the course of Degree in Pedagogy at UAG - UFRPE. Researches in the area of environmental perception are important for the development of various actions, being related to the consciousness and the way of life of the individual. It is worth mentioning that, in favor of conservation and preservation of the environment and natural resources, there is still a great lack of incentive actions for people, especially those who depend on the resources offered by Nature to ensure their survival. The Teaching of Environmental Education (EA) appears in the NCPs as a cross-cutting theme, being present in the other disciplines. The practice of EA in schools, depending on the teacher's, coordinator's and manager's view, is treated in a random way, due to the lack of incentive or because they consider that the contents of a particular discipline does not contemplate subjects of EE. The research performed is considered exploratory, but can also be classified as a case study. To obtain data, questionnaires were applied to students of the second and eighth period and to teachers who teach a course in the Degree in Pedagogy. When analyzing the Perception of Environmental Education among Teachers of the Degree in Pedagogy, we verified that they correlated to two important factors, co-responsibility and the construction of values, as being a primordial part in the construction of knowledge of environmental themes in education. When analyzing the data of the students, we verified that the concept of AE varies between the second and the eighth periods.