Percepção ambiental dos discentes e docentes do Colégio de Aplicaçao de Boa Vista – Roraima quanto aos aspectos e problemas geoambientais das apps do Igarapé do Frasco

Abstract

The history of Boa Vista city creation shows that environmental problems are influenced by the way in which territorial expansion occurred. During this process, Boa Vista spread towards lakes and streams, incorporated its permanent preservation areas (PPA), impacting them considerably. Therefore, the understanding of the problem is one of the ways to search for solutions and it requires the perception and global understanding regarding the reality of the space inhabited by all. In this perspective, the objective of this research is to analyze the environmental perception of students and teachers in relation to the geoenvironmental aspects and problems of the PPA of the Frasco stream, relating the results to the role of geography teaching. In this context, the Frasco stream, a part of the urban space in Boa Vista, stands out as a place of experience with the lived space for the high school students of the Colégio de Aplicação to observe and analyze the environmental impacts and problems of areas of PPA so as to be able to perceive local reality. The methodological approach of this research consisted of questionnaires for the data collection on the perception of teachers regarding urban environmental reality, questionnaires and geoeducational tourism that proposed to students a practice of dialogue with the places, and the interaction with attractive and repulsive elements, recognizing the landscape as a creation of socio-environmental interaction, in which students, besides studying the field, conducted interviews with local residents. The analysis of the collected data was based on the humanistic and phenomenological geographical perception, since the characteristics of the place go beyond the natural elements, and existence and reality integrate on Earth, that is, it is the reality of a same environment. At the end of the perceptual process developed with the students, we concluded that the perception of the geoenvironmental aspects and problems of the students until that moment was based on the generalization of the acquired knowledge and, when that perception was stimulated in an approach with the lived space, in the interaction with all phenomena, especially with the residents of the place, there was an expansion in understanding reality, what confirmed the importance of Taught Geography connecting the scientific basis to the humanized world.