Problemas socioambientais locais: construindo sentidos em uma escola pública do município de Juiz de Fora, MG

Abstract

In recent decades the environment has been global concern mobilizing various social actors reflection and action on the issue. It is in this context that arises Environmental Education, which presents itself as an important tool for the development of a collective consciousness that is urgent in a context of worsening environmental problems and conflicts today. However the recent establishment of this educational field and the inherent multiplicity him imply a continuous effort to understand the different perspectives and attitudes of men, women, children, educators, students, government and civil society in this regard. In this sense, the present study aimed to analyze the speech of teachers and students about the local floods that often occur over twenty years in a community located in the north of the city of Juiz de Fora, MG, where the school is inserted. Coupled to it we constructed a corpus of analysis in order to explore the conceptions of environment, environmental education and local environmental issues of respondents in order to favor a more comprehensive reflection on the subject. To conduct discussions of this research, we rely on the articulation of the theoretical and methodological framework of discourse analysis in French Line (AD) and current Critical, or People's Emancipation of Environmental Education. From this premise we seek to establish a close look at the contradictions, misunderstandings, silences, limitations, and above all the IDs and readings from each group to express themselves in speech and relate to the production conditions of these groups. Among the evidence, we find that the paraphrase (repeat) became frequent, both in teachers' discourse as the students in a movement of membership senses, where both have joined predominantly to aspects of a conservative discursive formation, thus pointing to the need an opening for polysemy. Furthermore, we conclude that such a discussion has highlighted a number of issues that go beyond the environmental aspect, which signals the importance of confronting society for the appreciation of teachers and quality public education.