Abstract

RIBEIRO DE FRANCA, Patrícia Auxiliadora  and  VITORIO GUIMARAES, Maria da Glória. The environmental perception of students in the Municipal Schools of Manaus: a case study. Rev. Educ. e Cult. Contemp. [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.40, pp.187-203.  Epub Dec 13, 2017. ISSN 2238-1279.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2238-1279.20180053.

The growing concern with the environmental issue provides that the theme of Environmental Education be disseminated and incorporated by various segments of society, including schools, to develop activities and projects to educate communities, seeking to sensitize them to the modification of attitudes and postures that are beneficial to the environmental balance. In this context, in order to specifically address the idea that the students of municipal schools form on environmental education has as a research problem the following: the extent to which the Municipal Schools of Manaus have contributed to promote Environmental Education (EA)? As a result of this question, the general objective of the work was to verify, through the students' perception, whether projects and actions in environmental education in the Municipal Schools of Manaus bring significant results that translate in personal practices in the day to day of its students. For that, a case study was carried out, with empirical research of the descriptive type, mainly in the form of field work. The main results were related to the approaches of important authors of the literature on the subject. It can be concluded that environmental education actions promote behavioral changes and awaken in students a certain interest to find solutions to environmental problems, however, in addition to the recognition of value and the interest that participants have on environmental issues, it is necessary that the schools advance and seek to develop new actions.

Keywords : Environmental education; Perceptions of the students; Municipal Schools of Manaus.

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