A contribuição da geografia escolar para uma educação ambiental crítica e emancipatória: o caso do Bairro Estoril de São Bernardo do Campo S.P

• Autor(a) principal: Farias, Rosana Amália Singh
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12302
• topic: Educação ambiental; Ensino de geografia; Impactos ambientais; Conservação; Environmental education; Teaching of geography; Senssibilization; Environmental impacts; Conservation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

Geography as a social science contributes to the teaching-learning process at all levels of basic education and to develop and deepen, throug the years, the interaction between society and nature, analyzing the changes caused in the environment. The Environmental Education (EA) is an interdisciplinary knowledge and has a set of theoretical formulations that are able to form concepts which grasp the complex social processes and environmental risks that intensify each day, using much of the contribution of geography. This study aims evaluate the importance of applying technical and practical education in the EA, in areas of water potential. The neighborhood of Estoril, the District of Big Creek, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, was the chosen area of study this area in view of the process of socio-environmental degradation caused by industrialization and urbanization that occurred in the metropolitan area of São Paul since the second half of the twentieth century. It is a necessary study in order to contribute to the identification of environmental issues experienced by students of São Bernardo, in his distinct geographical location. The purpose of this assignement created situations that might foster the student s learning and understanding because the school geography, develops studies on neighborhood streets, schools, to make the students identifiy themselves as an social agent of transformation and, thereafter, development. To get the proposed goals, readings about envuonment geography teaching and Represa Billings were taken. In thi field research, it was found that EA provides essential activities in the search for solutions to the worsening of environmental problems, practiced at different levets in the world. The use of guidance materials in the field, orientation such as maps, photos, background informations on the local helped the place, knowledge as well as comments made and discussions that caught the students' responsibility in relation to the care of these areas and multiplication of this knowledge to the future generations