Ações de educação ambiental em uma escola pública: conhecer para preservar

Abstract

Nowadays, environmental issues have been widely discussed. Due to the need to transform the habits of the population, the media always show the environmental disasters that occur worldwide. The excessive consumerism has been causing a great environmental impact. Environmental Ethics Education, in this case, makes it possible to integrate several issues related to the environment. In this context, a project had been developed with students from the 4th and 5th grades from Dois Vizinhos-PR’ municipal education system in order to show, through lectures, dynamics and actions of Environmental Education, the problems that the planet faces, making it possible to idealize new values through education. It was possible to observe an improvement in the way each child acts in the school environment. Students became aware and replaced their old attitudes and values by forming a new version of Environmental Citizenship, setting a new paradigm, changing the place in which they are inserted, developing a motivation and, consequently, a better quality of life.