Concepções e práticas em educação ambiental no curso de Licenciatura em pedagogia

Abstract

This work is the result of a research made with professors from Pedagogy Course at a public university. It aims to investigate the contributions of the degree course in Pedagogy for formation of teachers as an socioenvironmental educator, based on conceptions and practices of professors in that course. For this research, the methodogical procedures from qualitative approach were adopted. This study involved the participation of nine effective professors, who together teach a total of 31 (thirty one) curriculum components required, representing more than seventy percent of the course. During the investigative process, we search answers to four questions: (1) What are the conceptions of environmental education (EE) from the former professor? (2) How they see the introduction of EE in the curriculum components of the Pedagogy Course? (3) What are the formative processes that they have developed in relation to EE? and (4) Is the Pedagogy Course contributing to the formation of a pedagogue as socioenvironmental educator? The results indicate that four (4) professors fall in the integrative and transformative conception and five (5) fall in the preservationist and romanticized conception of EE. All professors believe in importance of insertion of EE in the Pedagogy Course, either transversally and interdisciplinary or disciplinary and they are concerned to promote educating focused on environmental awareness. Through the disciplines of Sciences and Geography, the professors provide opportunities for critical reflection on social and environmental issues, contributing to the formation of a pedagogue with a more sensitive view of EE.