Educação e risco ambiental: reflexões sobre práticas no ensino médio

Abstract

Society is experiencing a moment of concern with ecological and environmental problems arising from the search for unrestrained development at any cost. Environmental risks and disasters come largely from the imbalance between rampant urbanization, environmental degradation, associated with the communities' lack of knowledge, preparation and mitigation capacity. The current context, therefore, strengthens the need for transforming Environmental Education (AE), requiring a review of the superficiality of transversality and interdisciplinarity contained in its standardization for basic education, which is often disconnected, reductionist, disjointed and insufficient. Within this context, a critical and systematic review was carried out on the CAPES journals portal, on the practices and actions developed from the perspective of Environmental Education in the face of environmental risk in the last ten years in Brazil, focusing on secondary education. From the key words Environmental Education, Environmental Risk, Pedagogical Material, Pedagogical Practices and High School, 52 articles were identified that focused in some way on EE in schools, among these, only 17 developed some action aimed at high school, and none contemplated addressing environmental risk directly. This study showed that little has been researched and produced in this area, mainly in high school, showing the superficiality found in pedagogical practices that may reflect in the little effectiveness of the works in environmental education in basic education in Brazil and in the absence of important themes such as environmental risks and technological. Finally, the results showed the urgency of developing new educational projects in this area, here we suggest a pedagogical notebook on environmental risk as a product of the dissertation, in addition to the dissemination of practices, considering the importance of the theme and the replication of successful experiences in environmental development and social status of students in high school.