A prática docente na educação ambiental: uma análise da ação educativa dos professores de ciência da rede municipal de João Pessoa

Abstract

From an analytical perspective is that this study aims to identify the pedagogical conceptions and practices of science teachers in relation to environmental education in elementary school, bringing out their respective speeches the possible contributions of science teaching to an awareness regarding socio-environmental issues. For both, participated in this research Science teachers of elementary school, 6th to 9th grades of municipal Joao Pessoa in Paraiba. In this perspective, training and pedagogical practice of science teachers, with special attention to environmental issues were rescued. It is easy to see that many of the teachers who participated in the survey emphasize the environment as nature, where you live and where resources are extracted, thus portrays the environment in an anthropocentric view, the origin of which gave the humanistic anthropocentric ethics and in Cartesian thought, which places the man out of the natural environment. In most of the answers, conceptions of Environmental Education teachers based on concepts or information that commonly present themselves disconnected from a work proposal that contributes to the formation of critical citizens, able to build knowledge through changing values and an ethical stance on environmental issues. The analysis and interpretation of the results showed that environmental education will be effectively treated with the importance it deserves when we reach, as science teachers, constantly renewed understanding and awareness of the interdisciplinary relationships of the various fields of knowledge. This requires commitment to always reflect on our conceptions, attitudes and teaching practices in the classroom.