Projeto Adote uma Escola: análise da percepção da educação ambiental das professoras das escolas de educação de Pelotas-RS

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) is urgent and necessary to overcome the environmental crisis. EE is important and necessary in all types and levels of education, including early childhood education. Thus, it is essential that EE be effective at school from childhood so that human habits and attitudes are rethought and modified. In this context, the Adopt a School Project (AUE) was established by the Nucleus of Environmental Education in Sanitation (NEAS) belonging to the Autonomous Sanitation Service of Pelotas (SANEP) in 1992 as a complement to a public policy that would contribute to the dissemination and/or extension of selective collection in the municipality of Pelotas. The AUE Project aims to use schools in the municipality of Pelotas as catalysts and multipliers of the selective collection of recyclable solid waste, aiming at the sustainability of this process in the municipality. Thus, in view of the duration of the AUE Project in schools, approximately 30 years, and the apparent lack of evaluative studies on EE throughout the Project process, especially in kindergarten schools, the following questions arose: How do kindergarten teachers develop the AUE Project? What is the EE pedagogical activities linked to the AUE Project? In view of this, the objectives of the research are to understand, together with the teachers, the development of EE in the AUE Project within the scope of kindergarten preschools in the city of Pelotas/RS. The study was qualitative and quantitative in nature. The pre-school teachers, linked to municipal schools of early childhood education, belonging to the AUE Project, participated as research subjects. The data collection instruments used in the research were the questionnaire, with closed and open questions; and documentary study on the materials related to the AUE Project. In view of this, the main results and impacts expected from the research were: to improve the teaching and learning of EE together with the AUE Project in the preschool of early childhood education in municipal schools; highlight the need for continued training of preschool teachers in relation to EE; contribute to the formation of students, so that they are participatory citizens in the construction of sustainability; collaborate for the maintenance and constant improvement of the AUE Project; improve the process of managing recyclable solid waste at the school, surroundings, neighborhood and city; contribute to public policies related to EE at school and; minimize negative impacts on the environment in relation to the generation of solid waste.