O uso da fotografia como recurso metodológico para promover a consciência ambiental em estudantes do sexto ano do ensino fundamental II

Abstract

It is known that environmental crises have been progressively intensifying over time. This process occurs due to the distancing between human beings and nature, caused by the predominance of anthropocentric thinking and reinforced by the way the current economic system perceives the environment. In this context, Environmental Education within the scope of school education presents itself as a fundamental strategy to develop critical thinking in students, enabling them to perceive reality and raise questions about the current model of production and consumption that surrounds them. In order to make this reality explicit, the present study aims to analyze the contributions of photography as a methodological resource in environmental awareness activities carried out with sixth-grade students of lower secondary education. The need to analyze the contributions of this methodological resource emerged from the analysis of the school context, particularly regarding the improper disposal of waste, in a state school in Paraná. This analysis was conducted through the course of Mandatory Supervised Teaching Practice in Science of the Biological Sciences Teacher Education Program at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná. Thus, the present research is characterized as exploratory in nature, with an applied qualitative approach.