Formação de grupo de estudos, uma proposta de educação ambiental para o ambiente universitário

Abstract

The discussions on evironmental problems and the sustainable development present in the current days exerted a strong influence in the establishment of the definitions and the objectives of the environmental education. Accepted as a tool for citizenship and an to raise awareness about environmental problems, environmental education has been widely studied as a proposal for basic education. However, it is essential that their approach is also present in the context of higher education. This work made an analisys about the formation of students of the Biological Sciences course of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) as future environmental educators and reported on the experience of the activities carried out by the Group of Studies in Environmental Education (Geeduca), a group composed of students willing to contribute for the formation in environmental education, that during four years of operation promoted semester cycles of activities in environmental education directed to the academic community. For the survey, a questionnaire of seven questions was proposed whose analysis pointed to the short knowledge about the themes that involve environmental education, reinforcing the need to propose environmental education in the academic environment. For this, It’s necessary a better performance of teachers, students and institutional managers. The activities of Geeduca contributed positively to academic training improvement of Biological Sciences’ students on UFC.