The practice of composting as an teaching instrument of curriculum content and Critical Environmental Education

• Autor(a) principal: Buss, Aldineia
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Moreto, Charles
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/39699
• topic: Composting; Teaching Instrument; Environmental Educatio; Basic Education; Compostagem; Instrumento de Ensino; Educação Ambiental; Educação Básica

Composting consists of a technique in which the decomposition of vegetable remains is controlled, resulting in the organic compound. In addition to the many benefits of this technique for the environment, here composting was thought as a teaching tool. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate the use of composting practice as an instrument in the content education required in the curriculum and / or in the development of Environmental Education (EE). For this, an evaluation of the academic production, which reports on the practice of composting in this meaning, was made in the period between 2010 and 2018, and this practice was developed with students at school in basic education. All the articles surveyed had positively evaluated the use of compost as an instrument or method in the EE, likewise in the disciplines that involved in their projects. The results obtained from the practical development showed that the students constructed and expanded knowledge, besides increasing theirs perception of environmental problems. Thus, this practice is capable of contributing to meaningful learning, which allows to overcome alternative conceptions for to build scientific knowledge, apart from to provide an understanding of important environmental aspectsfor the practice of environmental citizenship.