Comunidades Costeiras na prática da Educação Ambiental: um estudo de caso na Prainha do Canto Verde, Ceará, Nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

The Ecoeducation consists of one of the most challenging proposals of this century as it aims at the construction of citizenship without forgetting the individual and collective responsibilities for maintaining balanced environment. This study sought to extract some information about the environmental perception of students of the School Bom Jesus dos Navegantes Coast Community Prainha do Canto Verde. And from that, develop some form of strategic contribution to the Ecoeducational process that is developed daily by the school teachers and their parents. 64 questionnaires were applied to students of Elementary School I and II, containing 19 questions divided into subjective and objective spaces on socioeconomic and environmental issues. According to the results, we could notice that the children showed an understanding of the cultural and environmental social consequences to the environment in which they live is polluted. Considering the school as a generator center of multipliers able to play for the rest of the community everything they learn about preserving the natural environment, it is strategic to apply the concept Ecoeducational through play activities to children in order to contribute to the strengthening of a conscious and sustainable society.