Abstract

SILVA, LUCICLÉIA PEREIRA DA; OLIVEIRA, LÍVIA MIRANDA DE; SOUZA FILHO, ERASMO BORGES DE  and  SAITO, CARLOS HIROO. Environmental education and teacher training in th. PARFOR in Para State University. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2015, vol.22, n.esp, pp.191-216. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.v22n2ep191-216.

Discussions and practices in Environmental Education (EE), but specifically about environmental issues in the field of initial teacher education have been directed largely to studies on conceptions of the human-environment relationship, lacking theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding this thematic and development activities, both formal and non-formal spaces. The present study brings the analysis of the knowledge construction process, about the above issues, during the Supervised Traineeship discipline: some experiences in non-formal spaces, offered to graduating class in biology attending the 5th module (semester), under the National Plan for Training of Basic Education Teachers – PARFOR running in the Pará State University, mediated by dialogical problem-pedagogy from the use of teaching materials PROBIO- Environmental Education (PROBIO-EA). The fundamental question in this paper is: do rearrangements of concepts and examples in the prior knowledge of the students effectively occurs from the use of PROBIO-EA didactic material? The methodological procedure involved the application of a questionnaire to survey the previous knowledge of the students in relation to socio-environmental conflicts and dialogical problem-posing pedagogy; discussion, planning and the use of the teaching material in a public square in the Castanhal city where it is located one of the university campuses; feedback with a second questionnaire to assess the learning that took place after completion of practice. From the data obtained we proceeded to the content analysis of the whole process of knowledge construction, which results are presented in this article.

Keywords : ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; PAULO FREIRE; SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS; TEACHER TRAINING; PUBLIC SQUARES; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION.

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