A fauna amazônica e seus significados para alunos de escolas públicas de Manaus/Am

Abstract

This work consists of a survey about the meanings of Amazonian fauna of students from two schools of Manaus/Am. The articulation of the various areas of knowledge here used sociology, psychology, anthropology and environmental education research, has allowed us to capture by different prisms theoretical construction of the symbolic world formed collectively about the relationship between humans and animals. Takes up here as a condition for the idea that the conceptions, meanings, worldviews, express a cultural vision that will serve as the way people think and act in relation to Amazon wild animals of reality. Each culture sees and sorts the animals differently, based on customs of each social group. And within this process of constructing dialectics between education, thought by us as a social practice that plays a crucial role in the formation of citizens aware of their rights and duties. Constitutes itself as a goal of this work analyzing the meanings of the relationship between humans and animals with the purpose of being a knowledge base to new pedagogical practices. Participated in this study 108 (one hundred and eight) elementary school students (5 ° to 9 ° year); 5 (five) teachers and 1 (a) qualified educationist. The data were constructed from analyses of questionnaires and interviews conducted in groups. Participants reported knowing 88 (eighty-eight) different types of animals, showing a utilitarian vision based on design anthropocentric in which animals are still being elements of nature at the service of people is for food, or as ecological functions and affective for humans. The majority of knowledge about animals in first level through television, then in the family environment and last level at school. Students found limited issues addressed in the environmental school on the subject; and science discipline was the most cited as the most deals with issues about the environment are further discussed in anniversaries. It is concluded that it is necessary to provide opportunities to change perceptions of teens, extending these concepts for a broad perception, independent and conscious of the world that students fall.