A educação ambiental na escola na perspectiva de educadores do Alto Capibaribe/PE

Abstract

This research investigates Environmental Education (EE) developed in the school space based on the experience narrated by environmental educators from Alto Capibaribe in Semi-arid of Pernambuco. It counted with the collaboration of eleven educators from the municipaities of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Brejo da Madre de Deus, Jataúba and Poção. The objective was to analyze the teachers' perspective on the EE practices developed in the school, aiming to understand how the local context is thematized, as well as the difficulties and possibilities faced by these environmental educators. To meet the research objectives, we use a qualitative approach, having the participant observation and the semi-structured interview as data collec-tion procedures. The analysis of the results was oriented by Discursive Textual Analysis and allows us to highlight diversified aspects of the perfomance of the teacher, such as: who are the subjects of EE's actions; how EE materializes in the internal space and external to the school; which themes are more recurring; what motivates and what weakens the development of EE actions in the school. The results also point to several rocks in the path, reflected in the lack of support of the management / school coordination, rigidity of the organization of the curriculum, in solitary work, lack of sources of information and logistics. However, even in the face of these difficulties, the teachers stand firm in their ideas and seek motivations in their life history and in the routine, for their constitution as environmental educators and af-firmation of their EE practices in the school context.