Um olhar sobre a educação ambiental proposta nas salas verdes no estado do Paraná

Abstract

The Green Rooms Project of the Ministry of Environment (MMA) was created in 2002 as an action to meet the National Policy for Environmental Education (PNEA). This project aims to implement Environmental Information and Training Centers. The objective of this study is to present an analysis of the Green Room Project and its implementation in the state of Paraná as an action to meet the PNEA, from the analysis of five Green Rooms present in Universities. Initially, we mapped the geographical distribution and the coverage of the Green Rooms in the state of Paraná, considering the different institutions that manage them. Then we performed the analysis of the Political Pedagogical Projects (PPPs) and/or Projects of registration of five Green Rooms in their respective universities, seeking to identify the political-pedagogical macrotrends of Environmental Education: conservationist, pragmatic and critical, addressed by Layrargues and Lima (2014) present in each of the projects and the proposed actions. The results obtained after the research allowed the identification of the number of existing Green Rooms in the state of Paraná, forty-one Green Rooms in the State of Paraná, not all macroregions of Paraná have them, the macroregion that concentrates the most is the Western macroregion. The main actions carried out by the Green Rooms are lectures and courses related to the theme. As for the geographical distribution, a low presence of Green Rooms in universities was identified, which shows the need for more dissemination of the project. Regarding the political-pedagogical macro-tendencies of Environmental Education, through the research it was possible to identify through the excerpts that mentioned the term Environmental Education and images of activities performed in the Green Rooms of each institution posted on social networks or present in the PPPs, that the macrotendency that predominates is the Critical, but we also find the conservationist perspective and the pragmatic. The Green Room project propagates actions and knowledge about Environmental Education from a critical, emancipatory and transformative perspective.