Temas da educação ambiental em uma coleção de livros didáticos de ciências PNLD 2020

Abstract

Environmental Education marked its place in the Brazilian curriculum from the 1990s onwards. Different trends and ways of outlining and practicing Environmental Education have permeated discussions and research, with emphasis on the conservative, pragmatic and critical political-pedagogical macro-trends. The general objective of this research was to analyze the approach to environmental issues in a collection of science textbooks from the PNLD 2020. The methodology adopted was a qualitative documentary and bibliographic approach, based on the stages of content analysis. Through a bibliographic review, it was possible to highlight the main points and differences between the macro-trends and also the importance of each one in the practice of Environmental Education, as well as mapping the productions that report research involving environmental themes in Science textbooks. The qualitative analysis of the four volumes of the Araribá Mais Ciências PNLD 2020 collection helped to identify their capacity for interaction with the sciences, so as to enable environmental themes to be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. As an educational product, didactic-pedagogical material was produced in the form of a Pedagogical Notebook, containing proposals for learning sequences with an interdisciplinary approach, based on activities involving environmental themes, articulated with the critical macro-trend of Environmental Education.