Environmental education in the school daily life: stories from the middle school

Abstract

Environmental education emerges as one of the most discussed themes today because of the social role it plays. In this context, the school has a privileged role to promote the information that assists in the environmental perception of the students, besides carrying out the educational work that composes emergency measures. The objective of this work was to study the development of environmental education in a public school in the municipality of Guaraí/TO, analyzing school management to identify whether it provides environmental education in its actions. The survey consisted of a total of 49 participants, and for the collection of qualitative and quantitative data, a questionnaire was applied with predetermined, objective and discursive questions, trying to diagnose the environmental perception of the students and the school community. For the analysis of the data collected, the descriptive statistical method was established. The results show that the school does not adopt environmental education according to the orientation of the NCPs, which results in the fragility of the environmental perception of the interviewees, revealing the need for improvements in the development of the environmental theme and the commitment of management to the transversality between contents. Well-designed environmental perception can stimulate the social transformation that results in changing the posture of individuals in society, ensuring the environmental balance necessary to guarantee resources for the next generations.