THE TEACHING OF THE SUBJECT PROTECTED AREAS IN THE UNDERGRADUATED COURSES IN BRAZIL: BETWEEN THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Autor(a) principal: Salgado, Cosme Simião Nascimento
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, José Emílio Zanzirolani de, Salvio, Geraldo Majela Moraes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Geographia (Niterói. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/51253
• topic: gestão ambiental; Instituição de ensino superior; Unidade de Conservação; Environmental Management; higher education institute; Conservation Unit; gestión ambiental; Instituición de Enseñanza Superior; Unidad de Conservación

Abstract: Protected Areas are essential to the conservation of biodiversity, safeguard cultures and encourage the economy, their effectiveness comes from participatory management. Among the Protected Areas are the Conservation Units managed by teams of multidisciplinary professionals. Managers working in these Units are responsible for making conservationist decisions in accordance with the National System of Nature Conservation Units. Higher Education Institutions integrate the lives of these professionals, as many have higher education. The objective of this research was to identify undergraduate courses in Brazil that address the subject of Protected Areas in the curricular matrices of mandatory subjects. The work had an exploratory character with documentary analysis of the Pedagogical Projects of the Courses. 275 undergraduate courses were observed in 113 institutions, 190 with approaches on Protected Areas distributed in 66.66% of the areas of knowledge of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, with emphasis on the Multidisciplinary area. It was concluded that the course in Technology in Environmental Management is the one with the greatest number of subjects involving the Protected Areas. In general, the area of Social Sciences was the one with the lowest number of subjects that address the theme. Keywords: Social Sciences; Environmental management; Conservation Unit Managers; Curriculum matrices.