Formação em educação ambiental: resultados didáticos pedagógicos de um curso de especialização

Abstract

This work deals with the training of teachers in the specialization course in Environmental Education, with emphasis on sustainable educational spaces, offered by UFPA / GEAM based on the guidelines and financing of the MEC / SECADI, with the objective of strengthening the National Policy of Environmental Education / PNEA. which was created to improve the educator's knowledge, bringing new learning ideas and making a difference in classroom pedagogical practice, specifically in environmental practices. To analyze the possibilities of how to transform the theoretical orientations from the training course in environmental education developed by PNEA into practical activities for primary education schools. The qualitative and conceptual approach was adopted for the analysis of this study, and to strengthen the ideas of the thematic was used bibliographical and documentary revision, which allowed to seek results of the veracity of the course practice. The subjects investigated were students of the first specialization course in Environmental Education with Emphasis on Sustainable Educator Spaces of the Pole of Belém, a survey was made of the graduation origin, age and locality of the same, collected through the registration form. The didactic products elaborated in team as an evaluative requirement of the Instrumentation Course for Environmental Education and Interdisciplinary Practice of the V module of the course was also object of research, emphasizing that we had access to the same through the moodle platform, a virtual learning environment , which assisted in the accomplishment of the activities carried out in face-to-face meetings and which were evaluated according to the preestablished criteria posted on the platform. The result identified that the formation of the educator in EE has become important to improve pedagogical practice in the question of environmental processes. The course provided a contextualized education with socioenvironmental reality, with the purpose of stimulating the construction of research and action teams in EE and of encouraging the transformation of schools into sustainable educational spaces. And through the products created to better learn the student, and to continue encouraging the teaching of the EA teacher was proposed and created, a guide and a manual, which make up an environmental educator kit. The educator, therefore, began to develop diversified methodologies that came to remedy the difficulties presented by the specialist, leading him to reflect on his praxis to improve his work.