Arte como ato educativo: reflexão sobre o colapso ambiental

Abstract

The apprehension of environmental collapse is currently one of the main concerns of contemporary society. The current pattern of economic growth, which works in a straight and infinite line while the Earth system operates in cycles, the result is a civilizing crisis that impoverishes the soil, contaminates water, extinguishes species, devastates forests and saturates the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. carbon. In an attempt to curb this insanity, international organizations, governments, NGOs, social movements and civil society establish economic agreements and treaties, which are not having the expected effects to solve the environmental problem. Among so many ways to fight for a healthier planet, education is an important way to teach that we need to rethink our relationship with nature. The research sought to analyze art as a pedagogical practice to raise awareness about environmental collapse through music and illustration as an educational resource, aiming to awaken the interest of students in the indivisible relationship between economy, politics, society and nature. The study was carried out at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas – IFAM, Campus Coari. Located on the outskirts of the urban area

of the city of Coari -AM. The participants were integrated high school students from the 1st- year classes of courses: Administration, Agriculture, IT for the Web and Maintenance and

Support in IT, totaling 187 students aged between 15 and 17 years. Guided by a quali- quantitative approach, in which the exploratory questionnaire applied to the groups, was not

the central point of the research, but it contributed statistically to a better understanding of the results, the method chosen for analyzing the illustrations was semiotics, as it best meets what if he had planned. The study ends with the certainty of having contributed with the sharing of knowledge to the teaching of environmental sciences, reaffirming the arts as an important mechanism for the construction of knowledge capable of promoting reflection on issues related to environmental collapse. In the case of research, the use of music and illustration significantly contributed to the assimilation of knowledge by the students.