Áreas verdes em meio ao espaço urbano: sob o olhar dos estudantes de Ciências Biológicas

Abstract

Given that Environmental Education aims to raise in a certain group of individuals training tools that awaken their affinity for sustainable conservation, primarily of the species that surround them (or should surround them), the interest arose to verify how students of Biological Sciences courses (Bachelor's and Degree) from the Federal University of Ceará - UFC, coexist with green areas in the urban space. The general objective was to analyze the students' environmental perception about these spaces and about the activities of the professional biologist that can be developed in these areas and the origin of this knowledge in the students. For that, it was decided to carry out a qualitative and quantitative research, with the use of an electronic form made through the Google Forms platform, sent via email to undergraduate students of the Biological Sciences course at the Federal University of Ceará, modalities Degree and Bachelor, from every semester. Nineteen responses to the forms were obtained, based on which floating analyzes were carried out with data categorization and information highlights to assist in the subsequent thematic analysis to discover the core meanings of the research participants' responses. A second objective of the work was to survey the green areas of Fortaleza, this part being done from the point of view of the biologist in training, in this case the researcher. Based on the survey, 22 areas of Fortaleza were visited, including squares and the most wooded parks in the city, observing shading by large trees, free access to these areas by the population and a sense of public security in these spaces, in addition to species notation animals and plants that can be found in them. It is possible to highlight the promotion among future professionals, even if they do not work in this area, of a reflection on their knowledge and conception of urban wooded spaces which they observe in their daily lives, in addition to how they could, in the future, act in these same spaces as professional biologists and we discovered the way in which they obtained the knowledge of what are the professional attributions of the biologist, which was mostly through disciplines of the curriculum of the course.