O ensino de ciências em escolas do município de Valença do Piauí: diagnóstico sobre o desenvolvimento de ações de educação ambiental

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) has gained greater importance over the years, becoming fundamental in the education process, relating environmental issues to social and cultural issues, with the aim of reducing environmental degradation and raising awareness of the consequences of wrong actions. Based on this assumption, the work aimed to investigate how Environmental Education is being worked on in elementary education II of public schools in the municipality of Valença do Piauí. In Brazil, the teaching of EE only became mandatory in schools after Law 9,795/99. Even though it is mandatory, it has not yet been possible to reach an adequate level of approach on this subject, with the existence of several gaps being notorious. The methodology had an exploratory approach, classified as qualitative and quantitative, with the elaboration of a questionnaire, where this was answered by elementary school science teachers. Even in view of the observation of good practices, it was found that the municipality of Valença do Piauí still has a lot to evolve in relation to EE through active practices, where students become protagonists of their own learning process, even though much still needs to be done to bring quality EE to students, aiming to form environmentally conscious citizens.