Formação continuada em educação ambiental: propostas didáticas desenvolvidas no contexto de um curso remoto em tempos de COVID-19

Abstract

Given the current sócio environmental scenario, the contribution of education is essential, especially environmental education (EE), with a view to forming critical, ethical, and conscious citizens. In this context, teachers are challenged to develop their work considering the sustainability and interdisciplinary questions but also the environmental complexity. To make this happen, teachers need to look for new knowledges and opportunities to think about their pedagogical practices. In order to contribute with the continuing education of teachers who have been working in Basic Education and give opportunities to partner between the university and the school community it was elaborated and developed an Environmental Education course for teachers who have been working with 4th and 5th grades of Elementary School. During the course, the participants elaborated didactic proposals (Dps), which are objects of this research that has as its leading question: What do the didactic proposals elaborated collectively by the teachers participating in an extension course of environmental education in the remote education modality. The objective of this research was analysing the didactic proposals considering their possibilities to bring the school context articulated with sócio environmental themes, to problematize the chosen themes from the perception of the realities of the school and its surroundings and to contribute to EE at school. The research corpus was consisted of the researcher’s logbook and the didactic proposals prepared by the course participants. The research data were analysed using the Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2011). The elaborated proposals showed themselves one of the possible paths for the teachers develop a collective work which may expand their and the community perception about the sócio environmental issues. Understanding that the reality problematization where people are in is a huge challenge, it is only possible through the construction of practices and pedagogical experiences and perceptions. It may require the disposition to new learnings and for the participation of this creation process and exploration of new work proposals. In order to contribute to this Environmental Education at school challenge, it was prepared an Educational Product as an E-book, named “Paths to the elaboration of Didactics Proposals for the Environmental Education at school”.