Ensino de ciências do ambiente para o bacharelado em engenharia elétrica: reformulação dos conteúdos da disciplina na UTFPR Campus Curitiba

Abstract

Environmental Education is fundamental to create a new model of human behavior regarding to the environment and nature and school could be the ideal environment to promote this education. Although many schools address this issue through a variety of projects, they are not always able to achieve their intended goals. The importance of Environmental Education for sustainable development and the role of the engineer as a transforming agent of the environment was decisive for the National Education Council, through resolution CNE/CES 11 of March 11, 2002, that establishes National Curricular Guidelines for the Engineering Graduate Course in its Art. 6º, § 1º, to include the course of Environmental Sciences in the nucleus of basic contents of the engineering graduate courses. However, as in the other levels of formal education, the result does not always meet the course proposal and the pedagogical program of the course. In order to contribute to the change of this reality, this research was carried out. This study is based on a qualitative research that used a documentary analysis of the pedagogical program of the bachelor's degree course in Electrical Engineering at UTFPR, campus Curitiba. The analysis focused on the objectives of the course, competencies, attitudes and abilities and professional profile of the egress student and in the programs of the Environmental Sciences courses that compose the curricular grid. From this identification were defined the proposed subjects for the reformulation of the programs of the course of Environmental Sciences, which is the product of this dissertation. The collected data were submitted to content analysis that was based on the following aspects: National Curricular Guidelines of the Engineering Undergraduate Courses, Environmental Education inside the university context and the National Curricular Guidelines for Environmental Education - NCGEE, in higher education. Among the main results of this study it can be inferred that the reformulation of the program and the contents of the Environmental Sciences course present in the curricular grid of the pedagogical project of the course (PPC), can contribute to the curricular environmentalization and the sensitization of the future electrical engineering professional to the socioenvironmental responsibility.