Contributos da História Oral para Educação Ambiental: percepções e aprendizados educacionais a partir do Rio Marataoan à Educação Profissional em Barras/PI

Abstract

Environmental education has been highlighted worldwide, as it is urgent and necessary to preserve and conserve natural resources so that a harmonious relationship between society and nature is possible. This study has as a research problem: what are the contributions of oral history to environmental education, from the Marataoan River, to the students of the State Center for Rural Professional Education Professora Maria de Jesus Carvalho Rocha – Barras/PI? And as a main objective, to investigate what are the contributions of oral history to environmental education, from the Marataoan River, to the students of the State Center for Rural Professional Education Professora Maria de Jesus Carvalho Rocha - Barras / PI. This research is justified by the need for Environmental Education to be present in an effective and continuous way in the educational actions of Professional and Technological Education within a systemic and non-compartmentalized view, enabling the training of professionals with a critical and global understanding of environmental issues current and urgent present in the environment in which he lives. The object of study was environmental education from the Marataoan River, under a descriptive and exploratory bias. For this, bibliographical and field research were carried out, using a quantitative and qualitative approach, through phenomenological methods and oral history. In the analysis of the collected data, the closed questions were tabulated in graphs using Excel, as for the open questions, they were analyzed from the Categorical Analysis of Content technique based on Bardin (1977). The product from this investigation was a documentary, whose content was based on the different memories of the elderly about the uses and urban social relations built along the Marataoan River, at different times, in Barras/PI. Given the results obtained, it was possible to highlight the contributions of oral history to the construction of learning in the field of environmental education, as it was possible to verify the change in students' perception regarding the preservation of the Marataoan River. With the development of this research, it is expected to contribute significantly to the practice of environmental education, with a view to building the environmental perception of students at the State Center for Rural Professional Education Maria de Jesus, collaborating for training based on values and attitudes positive.