The glocal-agir project: a way to connect nature and urban areas

• Autor(a) principal: Valente, Bianor
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Almeida, António
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/10464
• topic: Pre-service teachers; Contact with nature; Monsanto forest park; Educational resources; Docentes en formación; Contacto con la naturaleza; Forestal de Monsanto; Recursos didácticos

The Glocal-act Project (Knowing the global environment to act locally: From learning in nature areas to urban intervention) is an educational project for pre-service teachers and children from Primary Education which, among other aspects, focused on the connection between the Campus of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and the Monsanto Forest Park (MFP). Therefore, in the curricular unit of Didactics of Science, 31 students had the opportunity to visit the park and to create resources for primary children. We intended to understand the pre-service teachers' previous knowledge about the park, to check the MFP aspects that were taken into account in the design of the accomplish these objectives a questionnaire was administrated, a documental analysis of the didactic resources was done and focus groups interviews were conducted. The results show that 32.3% of the students had never visited the MFP. Almost all resources highlight aspects from the vegetation that can be found in the area. The geological aspects and the relation between biodiversity and geodiversity were practically absent. The results reinforce the pertinence of the project outlined and justify the need to improve students' contact with nature areas.