Educação ambiental e currículo : um olhar sobre a formação inicial de professores de Ciências e Biologia

• Autor(a) principal: Schmitt, Lilian Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/6706
• topic: PROFESSORES - FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL; CURRÍCULO UNIVERSITÁRIO; EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The aim of this research is to analyze the initial training of Science and Biology teachers and how it relates to the theme of Environmental Education, from the perspective of curricular elements of the Biology Education Degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, with the theoretical approach of the Critical Theory of the Curriculum. To this end, the methodological strategy included document analysis of the Course’s Pedagogical Project, including summaries and plans from all classes which are part of the course, focus groups with undergraduate students, interviews with teachers from two classes and participant observation in the Conservation Biology class. Using this methodological strategy, which includes mixed instruments (interviews, field diaries, data from focus groups, document analysis and literature review), we observed that the Biology Education Degree includes curricular experiences in Environmental Education. These experiences take place both in specific activities of the core curriculum, mainly in the Conservation Biology class, and in other formative spaces ensured by the course, such as the Institutional Grant Program for Teaching Initiation (Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência - PIBID), understood as a powerful space regarding Environmental Education because of its connection to schools and the practice ensured by the teaching experience. Although teachers and students recognize these spaces as formative in regards to Environmental Education, they acknowledge the need to broaden the discussion on the topic, shifting the discussion from commonplace (involving traditional topics as "garbage" and "recycling") and including social and environmental discussions related to the political context of the city of Porto Alegre. Although these issues are present in these curricular spaces, a critical approach to Environmental Education appears to be marginalized. The presence of a conservative and conservationist bias in practices and concepts is present. The initial training for politically engaged teachers in environmental issues of their contexts cannot be limited to the transmission of technical information on biological subjects. Training of educators sensitive to the environmental agenda undergoes a curriculum that is also sensitive to this issue and the university, as a sustainable educating space, needs to increase its efforts in this task.