EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL: CONCEPÇÕES E PRÁTICAS DE PROFESSORES DE ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS DE ITUIUTABA-MG

Abstract

The environmental education emerges in a context that derives from the inappropriate usage of collective goods in different temporal-spatial scales. Thus, the need to create conscientious citizens who are committed to social-environmental issues is one of the biggest challenges concerning this century’s environmental education. In this respect, this research aimed to comprehend the concepts, and the environmental education practices of the teachers at public schools in Ituiutaba – MG. The methodological procedures that sustained this study were centered in theoretical reviews of theses, dissertations, books and articles that approach the present topic; literature research from the schools’ educational-political projects (Projetos Político Pedagógicos – PPP), in addition to interviews with different teachers from the last years of elementary school. The collected data was organized, systematized and analyzed. That made it possible to determine the dominance of naturalist and anthropocentric views concerning the teachers’ environmental perception. From that, we could realize that the perception of environmental education of those surveyed is nestled in the conservative perspective scope. That was possible the moment they showed a strong concern about the conservation and preservation of natural sources. On the other hand, understanding the environmental conflict requires a complex view on environment.