Educação ambiental a partir da identidade ecológica: um estudo de caso.

Abstract

The present work has as general objective to investigate the environmental knowledge presented by the students, in the spaces of coexistence of the classes of Biology, of two classes of Polytechnic High School, for the constitution of the Ecological Identity and, from this, were proposed generative themes for the development of Environmental Education (EA) in a critical-reflective perspective. This is a qualitative research and a case study in which the environmental knowledge of said classes in the Biology classes was analyzed, used as a living space for reflection and debate of socio-environmental issues related to reality and perceived by students, in the year of 2015. We adopted the fundamentals of the critical-reflexive EA strand, being the reflexive component as important as the behavioral one. The students presented their environmental knowledge related to and integrated with their experiences related to the environment and social / cultural aspects from which the categories derived: I - Perception, from the scientific perspectives, romanticized and interpretive, II - Intent and III - Action. determined their ecological identity. Through the ecological identity we propose the following generating themes: I - Water abstraction Antônio Duro Dam, II - Waste sorting in Camaquã and the final destination and III - Challenges and benefits of organic agriculture. These generating themes originate through the socio-environmental context, which can stimulate the students to deepen their knowledge, helping them to construct new perceptions and possibilities regarding the generating themes to act as critical subjects and participating agents in society. EA is fundamental for raising awareness and for actions that involve society in the search for strategies for solutions and attitudes that promote sustainability and dialogue among the various segments of our society. In this sense, it is important to mention that the school is an important place that can propel the process of social transformation towards the global balance between human interests and the capacity to recover natural resources.