As representações de meio ambiente dos alunos do segundo e terceiro ano participantes da Gincana Ecológica do ensino médio em Pedra Dourada/MG

Abstract

This paper surveys the history of Environmental Education in Brazil, and after discussing social and environmental perception, seeks to demonstrate the importance of knowing the students' social perceptions of the environment to better plan the actions and activities to be performed to work this theme in schools. This dissertation aims to analyze the social perceptions of the environment of the students participating in the Ecological Gymkhana of Maria da Conceição Gonçalves Carrara State School in Pedra Dourada, Minas Gerais. A research was conducted through a textual production of the students, following a list of questions about observations observed in this production, which were analyzed according to a classification into three categories: naturalistic, anthropocentric and globalizing. The observed results show that most participants have a naturalistic perception, and also the predominant type of environmental perception in the production of students did not influence as to see as part or solution to environmental problems. In conclusion, this work has as its product a model of Ecological Gymkhana, which makes its activities adapted to improve the exhibition or the role of man as an integral part of the Environment, where students use behavioral actions, besides discussing and elaborating tests for the problems faced at school and in society, which were only addressed in specific and secondary issues.