Oficinas interdisciplinares de educação ambiental: o desenvolvimento da consciência ambiental em estudantes do Ensino Fundamental anos finais

Abstract

Environmental Education has the function of forming critical citizens, modifying their behavior and perceptions in relation to the environment. One way that facilitates the development of Environmental Education in the classroom is through educational workshops. The question that this study seeks to investigate deals with how do Environmental Education workshops contribute to the critical formation of students? The objective of the research was to stimulate the development of environmental awareness among students from two classes of the 6th year of elementary school in a public school in Maceió, located in the Educational Complex of Applied Research of the State Department of Education of Alagoas (CEPA), in Education Environmental using interdisciplinary workshops. The research carried out was of a qualitative type, developed in a public school in the state of Alagoas. The dissertation project was submitted and approved by Plataforma Brasil. Data collection took place through the application of a diagnostic test and a test of acquired knowledge, for the recognition of the students' previous knowledge and built after the application of the workshops. The intervention took place with three workshops, offered weekly, related to the discipline of Portuguese, Mathematics and Art Education. The data obtained were analyzed by frequency of responses and by categorization. The results showed that students had previous knowledge about Environmental Education and the workshops helped in the construction and improvement of knowledge, but students still have difficulty in speaking and understanding the subject, showing the importance of working with Environmental Education at school. It also presents the Technological Technical Product, entitled “Interdisciplinary Workshops on Environmental Awareness”, which aimed to support Science/Biology teachers to work on the theme of the Environment through interdisciplinary workshops.