Produção científica brasileira em educação ambiental nas escolas: um levantamento bibliométrico

Abstract

Environmental problems bring several worrying consequences, some of which are irreversible. Environmental Education (EA) emerges from this perspective, as a way of leading the individual to the construction of environmental awareness. Regarding EE in the school context in Brazil, the documents guiding education outline that it must be approached through transversality. Considering Brazilian scientific production on the topic, this study aims to survey scientific production in relation to EE in schools. The bibliometric research method was used in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The number of publications in towards low publication in the eleven years following the beginning of the first records and growth since 2005. About the journal with more publications, the Electronic Journal of the Master's in Environmental Education leads the ranking, storing 86/400 articles. This leadership may possibly be related to the fact that the journal has free access as well as an A3 concept, thus having good scientific quality. The survey revealed that institutional affiliations are more concentrated in the Southeast, South and Northeast regions of Brazil, with a predominance of public universities. This research made it possible to observe a relevant number of scientific articles published in the last 30 years on EE within the school environment. However, there is still a visible need to expand the production and publication of articles addressing this important topic.