A escola como ferramenta na construção da consciência ambiental

Abstract

The studies in this work aim to increase information about the role of the school in the development of Environmental Education. Whether they perform functions is important in the school context. They help build sustainable awareness and impact the life of the school community. Environmental impacts have increased greatly in recent decades, causing devastation to the entire ecosystem, highlighting the environmental degradation of biomes, species, decrease in natural resources, pollution and the emergence of diseases. Therefore, it is essential to comply with the tools that will help mitigate this global problem. Emphasize education as a bridge to connect with other agents, which minimize environmental impacts and bring possible solutions, whether individual and/or collective. The school brings into its policy, the action of effects, Environmental Education, being a dimension of education. Produce the intentional activity of practice, which must give individual development a social character in its relationship with nature and other human beings, aiming to enhance this human activity to make it fully environmental ethics. However, the school has an important role in the formation of knowledge, enabling the characterization of actions in the school life of its students and teachers. It has value in the construction of integrative actions to implement and raise awareness of the role of the entire school community in preserving the environment and all living beings.