A ética ambiental na formação cidadã do gestor ambiental

Abstract

Considering the importance of environmental ethics for a citizen education and the social role played by the environmental manager in facing the dilemmas presented by sustainable economic development, in this dissertation we inquire about the conceptions regarding environmental ethics developed in the academic formation of the Course Superior of Technology in Environmental Management of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pernambuco (IFPE) - Campus Recife. In order to achieve the purposes of this study, a qualitative approach was taken, a documentary and field research was carried out. The first one focused on the General National Curricular Guidelines for the Organization and Functioning of Advanced Courses of Technology (DCN), National Catalog of Advanced Courses of Technology 2016 (CNCST), the Institutional Pedagogical Political Project (PPPI-2012) and the Pedagogical Course Project (PPC-2017). The field research comprised the teachers of the course, through mixed questionnaires, and the students of the 1st and 5th modules (beginners and veterans), through closed questionnaires and structured interviews. Data processing was done through the categorical content analysis proposed by Bardin (2002). Thus, an attempt was made to analyze the conceptions of environmental ethics present in the normative and institutional documents; to identify the conceptions about environmental ethics in the discourse of the students and to identify the approaches on environmental ethics present in the pedagogical practice of the course's teachers. As a result, a pedagogical strategy was developed with the students of the 2nd module – the Role Playing Game (RPG) – to work in a ludic way the importance of environmental ethics in the professional and citizen formation of the environmental manager. It should be emphasized that this educational product, made with the appropriate adaptations to the context, can be used in technical courses integrated to high school, subsequent and in PROEJA, as well as in other higher technology courses.