Avaliação da inserção da educação ambiental como tema transversal nas oficinas realizadas em espaço cultural de educação não formal Centro de Atividades Pedagógicas Vila da Cidadania - CAPVC

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze how the insertion of Environmental Education (EA) in the activities carried out in the Centro de Atividades Pedagógicas Vila da Cidadania (CAPVC). After analysis, propose as the product of professional master’s, elaborate proposal for environmental education course (CEA) as educational resource for the teaching of EA and product of professional master's in Science Education. The challenge of embedding EA school theme and the process of continuous formation of teachers, should be an instrument to win this challenge to be considered as a positive contribution in the formation of citizens. In this sense, the CAPVC works in parallel with the school (contraturno time) for a transformative education about the problems linked to the environment, a cultural space of non- formal education, to develop educational activities and citizenship. Descriptive, qualitative research, developed in June 2013, in two phases: theoretical foundation supported by bibliographic and documentary research; field research, participatory, adopting as research instruments the note, with the development of the observation protocol; the elaboration of the work plan teaching (WPT) and application of the questionnaire. The result of the data generated and collected from the teachers of CAPVC, led to the construction of the Environmental Education Course, inserted into the Training Program in action promoted by Secretaria de Estado da Educação (SEED), in June 2014. It has been shown that teachers have an understanding of EA, but fail to make the transition from EA for the teaching practice. After the course of environmental education teachers understood the importance of inserting the EA as cross-cutting theme in the contents of their disciplines.