Educação ambiental e prática pedagógica: estratégias para o uso racional da água em uma escola pública do município de Santo Antônio do Tauá/Pará

Abstract

Environmental Education and its pedagogical practices, when worked in an interdisciplinary way and based on critical macro trends, are mechanisms indicated to lead the school community to think and propose effective solutions to problems that are affecting or that will affect the availability of water, such as scarcity, waste and pollution. This research was developed in the only full-time state high school, in the municipality of Santo Antônio do Tauá, in Pará, and was based on the following question: How can Environmental Education and its pedagogical practices be instruments for rational use of water in the municipality of Santo Antônio do Tauá? Regarding the objectives, the research methodology is descriptive, when its approach is qualitative, using technical bibliographic and documentary procedures supported by data collection through a mixed questionnaire applied to 17 teachers who work with 1st year high school classes. full time, in addition to field research. The results obtained indicate a lack of knowledge on the part of the target audience about the macrotrends of Environmental Education and a lack of interdisciplinary pedagogical practices in Environmental Education, consequently without materiality to generate sustainable and critical attitudes in the school community about problems related to water and the need of its rational use. To seek improvements and organization in pedagogical practice during Environmental Education classes, in particular, when approaching the object of knowledge water and its context in SDG 6, an educational product was created based on a Didactic Sequence (SD) entitled “If It’s water, I’ll take care of it”, based on the theory of problematization through the Arco de Marguerez, a strategy validated by teachers and included in the Pedagogical Political Project to be a constant pedagogical practice at school.