Percepção ambiental: um estudo de caso no semi-árido cearense

Abstract

This research, based on the presuppositions of the Environmental Awareness and Oceanography, set as subject the study of Environmental Awareness of students and teachers at Municipal School José de Moura, situated in Maranguape, in the context of semiarid in the state of Ceará, as it holds the biodiversity conservation and natural resources at this region also valuable to the preservation of the marine and coastal environments. For theoreticalmethodological approach, starting with the comprehension that the study, from the Environmental Awareness, combined with Environmental Education, may provide a reframe on social values, citizenship and identity building. In order to achieve the objective proposed in this study, some references as Capra (1996), Marengo (2008; 2011), Freire (2000), among others, were used. With a qualitative and quantitative approach, this research was preceded by field study, with participant observation, and as instruments it was used: questionnaires, field notes, thematic interactions. Thus, this research consists of eight meetings with the classes from grade 6 to grade 9 of the Municipal School José de Moura, totaling 120 students and 9 teachers. Held still an activity with complementary research at the Marine Science Institute/LABOMAR (Federal University of Ceará) and at the Náutico beach (CE) with students that had never been to the sea. The analysis of the collected data was made with descriptive statistical methods because of the need to produce and interpret numeric data. It can be implied that the study of Environmental Awareness with the school community emphasizes a positive concern by the teachers to include the Environmental Education in teaching. It was observed a tendency to defragmentation of the environmental thematic in the classes at the Municipal School José de Moura, however the results show existing barriers to overcome concerning to interdisciplinarity needed for this practice to be effective. It was found also an essentially ecological comprehension by the children concerning to the environment and environment issues, demonstrating the existing challenges to the teachers, as the re-framing of values and ethical-moral behaviors which stimulates a more critical and social view about the environmental issues.