Educação ambiental e áreas de risco: o trabalho de uma escola pública em Manaus.

Abstract

Environmental education aims to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes aimed to preserving the environment with a view to sustainability. Although it can occur, with the support of agencies or entities linked to the environment in businesses, government offices, meetings, forums, etc., the school is the natural "locus" and required for their development, as established in the National Curriculum Parameters (1996), the National Environmental Education Policy (1999) and Resolution No. 2 / MEC-CNE, from 15.07.2012, which established the National Curriculum Guidelines for Environmental Education, whose texts also pray that EE is tackled in a way transversal and interdisciplinary, inter-linking curriculum with students and communities. This study aims to understand and analyze the EE and areas at risk in the work of a public school in Manaus and the teaching practice in relation to the subject, identified that the school despite working the Education of Youth and Adults can develop with varying EA topics, including risk areas. However, there is little discussion between management and teachers as the approach of topics, methodologies, frequency and how it is working, standing out in this research field and Management Plan that highlights the school over the actions taken on the dates commemorative and alluding to the environment than the actions of their daily lives, although there are charges for teachers on how to address the issue. On the other hand, the EYA is not consistent with the evaluation model adopted in state and county - whose dynamic is the "approval at any cost" - which ultimately creates antagonisms between teachers and administrators, with negative consequences on the quality of teaching. Moreover, despite the legal requirements, the Government does not provide education, training and material conditions to which schools are structured minimally to overcome the shortcomings, enabling a suitable approach to EE, frequent, articulate, interdisciplinary and pedagogically rich, mainly because teachers have excellent levels of knowledge and mastery of the subject. Nonetheless, considering that the EYA is a complex and peculiarities education, has - as if the fact meritorious, even without major support from official bodies, there is an effort by the school to think and work at EE, including with current issues. Thus, we conclude that if there is more proactive in support of environmental ethics, all acting in an integrated way, including charging the Government to its obligation, there are good prospects for progress in transforming much of the environmental behavior and culture of individuals and communities, from their own realities.