Jogo 'complexidade da vida': recurso pedagógico para prática da educação ambiental

Abstract

In the current scenario of intense social and environmental crisis it is necessary to debate the various sectors of society related to environmental problems and ways to avoid them or minimize them. The school and specifically teachers, play an important role in this debate through environmental education (EE), area of knowledge that can promote the individual and collective skills, attitudes and skills for the conservation of the environment, which can only be enables with due participation of students. Several authors argue that one way to achieve this participation and make the most stimulating and enjoyable classes is the use of the play. The research in question, left this premise and aimed to develop an educational game, following the RPG mode, in order to contribute to the learning of concepts aimed at content environment and in stimulating awareness from the practice of environmentally sustainable actions and principles of EE. The period in which the survey was in 2015 with a group of 6th grade of elementary school - afternoon period - in a public school in the city of Campo Grande / MS. In addition to the educational game called "Complexity of life" were carried out other activities such as questionnaires resolution, dialogic class concerning environmental concepts, application of a quiz in the technology room, discussion on the basic principles of environmental education present in the "Earth Charter "and interviews. The Freire's perspective was used as a theoretical reference, because the focus of the research was basically in dialogical and questioning of reality. Data were analyzed in the light of the adopted framework and from the content analysis. It was found that the educational game and related activities proved to be a potentially appropriate remedy because contributed to the elucidation / learning concepts and provided knowledge of the principles of environmental education, enabling students' access to official documents dealing with this issue and which until then they were unknown to them.