The silence about Environmental Education in the Pedagogy Courses from the Federal Universities of Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Gislânya Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Marques, Hellen Lourdes Ramos, Oliveira, Rosemeire Silva Dantas, Couto, Whendel Cezar Silva de, Fireman, Elton Casado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Brasiliensis (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://revistas.ufcg.edu.br/ActaBra/index.php/actabra/article/view/197

This article analyzed and discussed the offer of Environmental Education in courses of pedagogy of Federal University of Brazil and the implications for the education of the pedagogue in Environmental Education. This is a qualitative and quantitative research. Twenty-seven pedagogy courses were selected, one in each Brazilian capital. For analysis, data were collected in curricula, subjects' menus to verify the presence of Environmental Education in disciplines describing their insertion. It was observed that Environmental Education is not prioritized by these courses, 30% of the courses surveyed did not include it as a discipline, which can generate a problem in the formation of the environmental educator and, consequently, in society. With this problematic in the training, its performance in the classroom could be compromised, not favoring to the students the teaching of the knowledge of the Environmental Education ample and critical and that also make them capable subjects mediators of that consciousness, in the society. Investing in this training is the way for the teacher to have the skills and abilities to know this still in their undergraduate education.