Formação continuada docente: o teatro de fantoches possibilitando reflexões em educação ambiental

Abstract

In this research I investigate the theater of puppets, as pedagogical proposal in the continued teaching formation in Environmental Education. The study was carried through in the space of the Research Group and studies in Environmental Education - GPEEA/Green Room „Pororoca‟ with the participation of six teachers of basic education. The applied methodology was the qualitative one, of the type participative action research; for the data collected I worked with four sources: 1) questionnaire, 2) the workshop, the 3) target log book and 4) interviews, carried through to clarify referring doubts to the information given by the teachers. To analyze the data I used the technique of the methodological triangulation. I evidenced that the theater of puppets as strategy for teaching-learning of environmental knowledge had been important in all the stages:1) In the confection of the texts each story presented referring information to the professional and personal experiences of the teachers, 2) In the confection of the puppets because the used methodology was considered good, cheap and easy to make, using also recycled material and 3) In the presentation of the puppets, therefore their “speaking” had expressed problems of the teacher‟s daily activities - the garbage, the consumerism, the deforestation -, beyond values and attitudes. The use of the theater of puppets as methodology was recognized enthusiastically by the teachers as viable in the professor‟s practice in all the disciplines, and the most important: with different connotation of the playful for the playful.