Criança e natureza: educação ambiental na educação infantil no município de Curitiba - PR

Abstract

The research Child and Nature: Environmental Education in Early Childhood Education in the city of Curitiba seeks, through document analysis, to perceive elements of Environmental Education in the daily life of municipal units of Early Childhood Education; for this purpose, the Early Childhood Education Curriculum is analyzed together with the municipal curriculum guidelines for Environmental Education, both documents published in 2020. The municipal curriculum for Early Childhood Education presents the principles of the Municipal Education Network of Curitiba aligned with current national documents, in addition to bringing the specificities of the city and the trajectory of EI in Curitiba. The municipal curricular guidelines for Environmental Education seek to direct the process of social and environmental citizenship training of children and students throughout RME. For this purpose, guidelines are presented for implementing Environmental Education in all educational spaces in the city. Historical aspects of Environmental Education and Early Childhood Education are also presented in this research, as well as the laws and regulations of both. Teacher training is alsoconsidered a founding and essential process for transforming mechanized teaching practices that do not consider children as producers of culture and knowledge. The research also proposes an educational product entitled “there are children out there”, a website that seeks to gather significant experiences of Environmental Education in Early Childhood Education, in addition to gathering pedagogical resources for consultation and subsidies for teaching professionals.