Avaliação dos recursos de educação ambiental nos espaços e escolas municipais de Curitiba

Abstract

This dissertation proposed to investigate and develop tools and strategies to make the actions of environmental education (EE) more effective in schools that works with children in the 6th to 9th grades (11-14 years old) of the Municipal Education Net (RME). The activities offered in the EE municipal spaces of Curitiba were the research goal. EE is understood as part of the educational process, which allows students and teachers to share knowledge, skills, values that can turn on into attitudes, skills and behaviors necessary for responsible decision-making interactions with the environment. The first step was to develop a proposed study to selected information in the official documents to trace a panorama of the structure and operation of municipal departments of Environment and Education. Second, with these data and supported by the literature review, it was possible to draw a picture of the goals, features, regularities, and locations of educational, cultural and interactive EE. Then, technical visits were scheduled with officials staff from the four spaces in the city: the Botanical Museum (Memorial); Natural History Museum of Capão da Imbuia (situated at Capão da Imbuia county area) Zoo (Iguaçu Park), and Environmental Education Center Municipal Secretary of Environment (CEA of SMMA). In addition, we established contact with employees who direct the activities of EA in the municipal bureau. Finally, enquiry was done with teachers from the eleven schools of 6th to 9th grades of RME. This survey instrument was designed to obtain information about EE's actions in those degrees, the frequency, intensity, relations with subjects, attendance at courses, municipal EE spaces and environmental practices in schools. The results indicated that, despite the offer of these type of activities, the official records registered no visits of the schools from 6th to 9th grades in the municipal areas of EE in the years 2010 and 2011. However, some teachers of the RME, the survey respondents, said that they had visited the municipal areas of EE even though without reporting practices related to the activities that take place there. The conclusion was that the instruments are still insufficient to establish a dialogue between schools and municipal EE spaces. In the side of SME, it was observed that there are few teachers‟s training courses in the areas of education and environment. Most of the short courses offered by the SME treats about the didactic and pedagogical issues (literacy, math education), and few of them works with the cross-cutting themes (ethics, environment and sexuality). In the side of the municipal EE spaces, it lacks contacts. Given this, it was idealized a form to support teachers and students to learn more about the public spaces of environmental educational and to stimulate interaction and dialog between these two important municipal institutions. The form was filled out with the RME teachers who said the same cooperation for development activities and better understanding of municipal spaces EA.