Entre questões ambientais e educacionais : ambientalização do currículo na região do Alto Capibaribe, Pernambuco

Abstract

The research investigates the processes of greening the curriculum. What we call the greening of the curriculum refers to the integration of environmental issues into the curriculum and being the Environmental Education (EE), the main agent of this greening. In this work, we seek to understand how environmental and educational issues are articulated within the school curriculum, producing EE practices and subjectivities oriented by ecological ideals. For this, the following objectives were defined: to analyze the integration of environmental issues and their relationship to the study context; understand the connections between texts and curriculum officers and produced texts regarding EE in school; in addition to understanding how teachers construct and develop actions to EE, their views on the same and the repercussions of their careers training on the practices of EE conducted by them. The field researched were three public schools in the cities of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe and Brejo da Madre de Deus, cities belonging to the Upper Capibaribe-PE. The interest in investigating schools in this area stems from the recognition site and having them experience reputation and engagement with shares of EE in the Capibaribe basin. In order to achieve the goals, we made use of an ethnographic approach which involved participant observation, field diary records, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis of texts produced by schools and departments of education guidelines to which schools are subordinated. Data were analyzed from an interpretative bias, based on phenomenology and hermeneutics. The analysis led us to note that the practices of EE in general deal with local issues and themes, that the teacher has an important agency in the development and integration of EE in the curriculum, that the entry of EE in school does not happen without conflict and, at critical moments, the EE is not a priority at the school, tending to be suspended to be resumed at a later date. These results lead us to reflect on the need to deepen the debate on the introduction of EE in the school curriculum, rethink the space-time of EE in basic education, to discuss the infrastructure that we need, as well as redirect the education of professionals who work on it, to broaden the scope of the EE in this institutional context, so that, finally, acquires a more permanent and organic character in the school’s curriculum.