Uso de energia elétrica e o desafio da sustentabilidade ambiental nas escolas da rede municipal de ensino de Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil

Abstract

With the environmental degradation caused by the various consumption patterns and unsustainable practices, such as the increasing use of fossil fuels for the production of energy, the load capacity and support of the planet has been compromised. In this sense, the increase in the ecological footprint and the increasing pollution and deterioration of various environmental systems increasingly compromises ecological balance and planetary sustainability, thus causing a series of socio-environmental problems. Given this context, the ecological literacy of future citizens is urgent in order to (re)think and (re)build a model of society that is guided by the tripod of environmental sustainability: social, economic and ecological. It is in this perspective, that the present article has as main objective to verify the actions of environmental sustainability, with regard to the use of electric energy in three municipal public schools, with students from the 3rd to the 9th grades of Elementary School, located in City of Fortaleza/Ceará: Municipal School Ari de Sá Cavalcante, Municipal School Professor Vânia Maria Neves Facó Barros (Unit II) and Municipal School Papa João XXIII. To carry out the research, a bibliographic survey was initially carried out on the subject in question. The qualitative base methodology used was based on documentary research, bibliographic research and application of a semi-structured questionnaire and interview containing 12 questions directed to the target audience of the three schools investigated, with regard to the habits and customs related to the consumption of electricity, as well such as the monthly monitoring of the electricity bill and daily discussions in the classrooms and in the daily reception of students in the school yard on the management model and management of electricity used by the school. The results signaled that the majority of students should reevaluate their habits with the use of said energy in order to practice socio-environmental and economic sustainability both at school, at home and wherever they are and that socio-environmental education measures such as these must be replicated.