The perception of the environment and Environmental Education in the teaching practice of teachers of the rural municipal schools of Morrinhos, GO

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Flávio Reis
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Cândido, Cristiane Raquel Ferreira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Interações (Campo Grande. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://interacoes.ucdb.br/interacoes/article/view/3476
• topic: Environmental Education; environmental preservation; environmental sustainability; Educação Ambiental; preservação ambiental; sustentabilidade ambiental; Educación Ambiental; preservación ambiental; sostenibilidad ambiental

The present study aimed to analyze the perception of teachers of Kindergarten and Elementary School of rural municipal schools in Morrinhos, GO, about the Environment and Environmental Education, namely: Municipal School Vereador Deusdete Damacena, Municipal School Lindolfo Alves Pinto, and Municipal School José Cândido da Silva. As it is a research that involves the subject’s perception, we opted for the case study with the use of a qualitative approach for data analysis. In all schools, questionnaires with semi-structured questions were applied to the seven teachers participating in the research, related to environmental issues. We clarify that this study stems from our concern to rethink the relationship between man and nature, as well as the conceptions of development, progress, and growth imposed by the capitalist economic model and how Environmental Education (EE) is being worked on in rural schools. The most important results show that the school is one of the main places to promote changes in behavior when working with different environmental knowledge; however, many challenges in working with EE still need to be overcome, starting with teacher training. Most of the research subjects still have a reductionist, naturalized, and anthropocentric view, both concerning the environment and Environmental Education.