A educação ambiental nas escolas municipais de ensino fundamental de Manaus: um estudo de caso a partir da percepção dos discentes

Abstract

This work had as a starting point to find response to the following problem: the extent to which public schools have contributed to promote environmental education? Due to such a question, the work aimed to verify that the projects and actions in environmental education in public schools bring significant results that translate into personal practice in the daily lives of their students. To this end, we conducted a case study with empirical research descriptive, especially in the form of field work. Data were statistically analyzed from the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) and the main results presented in graphs and tables. It was observed that the results were concerned with the approaches of important authors of the literature on the subject. It can be concluded that environmental education promoting behavioral changes and awaken the true student interest in finding solutions to environmental problems, however, apart from the recognition value and the interest which the participants have on environmental issues, it is necessary schools to further advance so that they become more frequent environmental education in everyday life of the students and to develop new actions and plans aimed at preserving the environment