Educação ambiental e desenvolvimento sustentável na formação em Ciências Contábeis

Abstract

This study aimed to verify if the Accounting Science course of a federal university, from the Alagoas backlands, provides Environmental Education focused on sustainable development. In regard to the methodological procedures, we opted, therefore, for the descriptive research, with technical, bibliographic and survey procedures, in addition to the quantitative method for addressing the problem. For data collection, a questionnaire was applied to students from the eighth period of the Accounting Science course. The results of the research point out that the researched course does not provide Environmental Education in a cross-sectional way and that, for the most part, the students who had access to the themes on environmental issues and sustainable development were those who attended the Environmental Accounting curriculum component, for which we assume that such subject encompasses the social and environmental them.