Representações de estudantes sobre questões ambientais

Abstract

The Environmental Education has the task to define values and motivations that lead the standards of preservation behavior and improvement of the environment. In this direction, I consider that the biggest challenge that is placed for the Environmental Education is to give to account of the understanding of the complexity man-nature. With the objective of to find out conception/representation of participants of formal education regarding the environment problems, two workshops on subjects related to the environment had been implemented. Moreover, they had been proportionate moments of participation and learning and to exactly was verified the importance of the workshops as pedagogical instrument, aiming at a dialogue between the participants and relating the subjects with the partner-environmental context where we are inserted. As much the academics of the Course of Biological Sciences how much the pupils of Basic Education had presented similar conceptions with relation to the environment problems. However, the first ones believe that proper they can become the "rescuers of the planet" through its research and beliefs in the power of science. On the other hand, the others if do not insert in the partner-environmental context as collaborating of the process of degradation and as possible operating in the preservation of the environment. Moreover, any relation between the environment and social problems was not mentioned in no group. In this direction, the fragmented notion is evidenced that is passed through the resumes and of the media which use a naturalistic and anthropocentric boarding of the environment. An environmental education becomes necessary that makes possible the construction of a representation of complex environment, which makes possible the pupil to acquire a global conscience of the relative questions to the way, so that then positions sharpened with referring values are assumed its protection and improvement.