Percepção ambiental de alunos de ensino fundamental sobre o ecossistema manguezal

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Aldeci dos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6906
• topic: Ensino de ciências; Percepção ambiental; Mapas mentais; Ecossistema manguezal; Environmental perception; Mental maps; Mangrove ecosystem; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The present work aims to contribute to the environmental preservation of mangroves through the Environmental Perception of the students of the 6th year of a public school in the municipality of Barra dos Coqueiros/SE. For its development, we opted for the qualitative methodological approach, with a bias to the case study. The methodological design of the research was divided into three moments: 1) Diagnosis about the students‟ previous perceptions through questionnaires and mental maps; 2) Conducting a didactic intervention on the mangrove approaches of the municipality; 3) Comparison of the mental maps before and after the educational intervention, in order to verify if there were changes in the students‟ perception. It should be noted that all the above mentioned steps were carried out during Science classes. For the analysis and interpretation of the mental maps made by the students in the first phase of the work, the methodology proposed by Kozel (2001) was used. The use of the questionnaire and mental maps prior to the didactic intervention presented important contributions in order to evaluate the students‟ perceptions regarding the mangrove ecosystem. Thus, it was verified that the students already had previous knowledge about the ecosystem. The didactic intervention contributed significantly to the teaching process and to the expansion of the knowledge that the students already presented, always focusing on environmental issues. As for the mental maps after the intervention, in addition to the students drawing, they also made a description of what they had illustrated, thus facilitating the understanding of the drawings. In the maps and descriptions mentioned above, we identified that the majority of the students emphasized the main environmental problems – for example, the trash – as well as the importance of the ecosystem, both for the population that uses the mangrove as source of subsistence, as well as for local fauna and visiting animals. It was also possible to verify that the environment can affect the individual and vice versa, through a diversity of positive and negative interpretations, with some distorted and depreciative visions related to the work focus environment. Thus, environmental education is necessary in order to carry out, together with the students, a process of sensitization regarding the attitudinal aspects, contributing to the preservation of the environment, besides favoring and stimulating the closer relations of these with nature.