Paisagismo escolar como ferramenta de educação de ambiental em uma escola de ensino médio em Uruçuí-PI

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE), whose core is the conservation of the environment, must permeate the entire stage of Basic Education, including High School. Among the interdisciplinary tools that can be used to work on EE is School Landscaping, which consists of the construction of green areas in schools, constituting spaces for coexistence, garden management, contact with botanical nature, among others. The contribution of school landscaping in the environmental education of students is to form theoretical and practical multipliers in the conservation/preservation of the environment. That said, the objective of this work was to evaluate the use of landscaping as an EE tool in High School. As a methodological procedure, a qualitative-quantitative participatory research was carried out with students from the 2nd year of high school at a state school in Uruçuí, Piauí. A diagnostic evaluation on AE was applied to the students and, later, the researcher together with the students developed a landscape project with plants and recycled material at the school. Finally, a questionnaire was applied to collect student reports about the project and assess what impact landscaping has had on students and teachers. The application of the project brought an innovative experience to those involved, and the lecture made the students change the concept they had about EE, because with the application of the first questionnaire, the result was that the students did not know for sure what it was EE and, after the lecture and the practical class, which consisted of the landscaping intervention, the results showed that the concept of Environmental Education started to have a real meaning for the students involved in the project. In this way, it became evident the importance of bringing such themes into school life with the installation of the garden and the possibility of outdoor classes, through school landscaping