Geografia e educação ambiental no espaço escolar : estudo realizado no Colégio Estadual de Aplicação Manuel Caiado com alunos do 9° ano

Abstract

Environmental education is currently one of the most forceful debates regarding formal education in Brazil and in the world. After decades of research, uses of cutting-edge technologies, it was concluded that humanity is destroying the possibilities continuity of life on Earth and it is up to this and the next generations to teach and learn forms of conscious consumption, seeking to repair, preserve and prevent greater damage. In this context, several international meetings and agreements arising from from these, the concepts of environmental education were highlighted and analyzed. In the Brazilian context, environmental education and the tendency to concentrate only in the discipline of Geography, in the main documents that govern education Brazilian law, such as the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education and the Parameters National Curricula. Finally, the example of the Colégio Estadual de Application Professor Manuel Caiado, which was contextualized and related to approach to environmental education in its Pedagogical Political Project, in the Curriculum Reference destined to education in the State of Goiás, to then oppose and analyze the reality observed at school and the notes of Geography and sample of twenty-six students in the ninth year of elementary school. Therefore, as a result, several impasses were verified that hinder the teachers and school initiatives, as well as, on the other hand, a certain interest on the part of students to work on environmental education.