Abstract

REIS, Geilson de Arruda  and  SCHWERTNER, Suzana Feldens. Environmental Education in Elementary School: student learning and its reflexes beyond school. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.69, pp.957-984.  Epub June 11, 2021. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.21.069.ao08.

This paper reports an Environmental Education (EE) work that has been developed with Elementary School students, since June 2012, in a municipal school in Imperatriz / MA, Brazil: the Bacuri Verde Project (BVP) - Adopt a tree. The goal was to identify if the experience in EE promoted by BVP resulted in learning for students inside and outside the school space. Regarding the methodology, this is a qualitative study, approaching the assumptions of multi-case studies. Nine former students and three PBV enrolled students were involved, with a total of 12 participating individual subjects. The data were produced through semi-structured interviews, which were recorded and transcribed in full. The material was analyzed following the approach of Discursive Textual Analysis through the categories: learning and aspects about under the ideas of the investigated, experiences and learning in the nursery space and “everywhere I go, I will take what I learned in the project”. The results showed that the learning produced and experienced in the context of the BVP proved to be relevant, both for the school space and for other places beyond it. Positive changes were pointed out in the ways of relating and communicating with people in frequented spaces and times lived after the studies at school.

Keywords : Environmental education; Experiences; School context; Non-school context; Students.

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