Educação ambiental no ensino superior: caminhos e contribuições da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The present work intends to identify the contribution of the Federal University of Ceará, in its four areas of action, for Environmental Education. One of the specific objectives of the study is to map environmental education in the teaching, research, extension, and management of UFC. It is a research of qualitative and quantitative approach or nature, of an exploratory and descriptive character, still considered a case study, which uses documentary research and narrative interview as instruments or techniques of data collection and production. In the construction of the theoretical reference, I use the contributions of Freire (1987), Figueiredo (2015), Rodriguez and Silva (2013), Viola (1992), among others. As a result it appears that, in the Teaching area there is no obligatory curricular component, inserted in the curricular matrix of all postgraduate/graduate courses that deal with the theme, in the Research area the actions carried out are by teacher initiative, already in the Extension and Management areas there is a relationship between the increase in Environmental Education and the objectives of the PDI. The interviews show the existence of spaces in the Institution to deal with issues, and an extensive walk towards the dissemination and maintenance of environmental education, preferably critical and dialogical at the University.