Temas geradores de educação ambiental no Projeto Florestinha– espaço educador sustentável não formal

Abstract

The objective of this work is to raise themes that generate environmental education for the preparation of pedagogical didactic material of the Florestinha Project I, belonging to the Environmental Military Police Battalion of Mato Grosso do Sul. The Florestinha Project develops socioenvironmental actions with children and adolescents from seven to sixteen years in a situation of social vulnerability, aiming to assist in the formation of critical citizens and inserted in the social, political and environmental environment. The students of the project are affectionately called "florestinhas". Even carrying out Environmental Education for more than 20 years, both the Environmental Military Police Battalion and the Florestinha Project have never been subjected to any evaluation of the techniques and methods employed, nor have actions been systematized. In this perspective, and the concern to consolidate generative themes for the elaboration of didactic- pedagogical materials of the Florestinha Project, by means of the survey of the environmental perception of the florestinhas, for construction and interpretation of mental maps, according to the methodology of Kozel (2007), and thematic reduction with the multidisciplinary team of Project Florestinha collaborators. In addition to the analysis of mental maps was also used to construct generative themes methodology, an adaptation of the dynamics of thematic research proposed by Paulo Freire (1987), systematized by Delizoicov (1991) the discourse analysis of the dialogues with participants was used the analysis textual discourse developed by Moraes and Galiazzi (2007). During the survey of the generating themes it was possible to observe that the florestinhas have concepts about environment and understand that the man is part of the environment. And they also suggest that sustainable action does not mean keeping the environment untouchable. The collective construction enabled the multidisciplinary team to view EA in a critical way, providing new reflections and concepts. The following themes were identified: recycling / selective collection, deforestation / reforestation, energy sources and the last environmental pollution, suggested by the team of participants as a macro theme. Finally, this research suggests the use of generative themes in the teaching materials of the Florestinha Project in a broader way, and that is focused on the inclusion of social and cultural issues related to local environmental problems.