Acessibilizando o ambiental: elaboração de cartilha inclusiva como instrumento de educação ambiental para pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

Education is a powerful instrument in the awakening of ecological consciousness. However, it is very important that this practice covers everyone, including students with special needs. This work aimed at the elaboration of an inclusive booklet as an instrument of Environmental Education (EE) for people with visual impairment. It is a qualitative research, of exploratory character, that involved bibliographical research, interviews and data analysis as a base for the creation of the proposed instrument. Three main points were divided: 1) bibliographic review in order to elucidate the main concepts and reflections on special education, visual impairment and the teaching of blind people; 2) the Sensory Garden Extension Project and 3) the creation of the Inclusive Booklet "Playing with Planting: a window to inclusion". Of the eleven (11) species worked on during the extension project workshops at CAPE-PE, three (3) were used to compose the literary content of the booklet, namely Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), Chives (Allium schoenoprasum L.) and Small Leaf Mint (Mentha Piperita L.), as well as their sensory recognition attributes: rib in the lower central part of the plant (touch), size and tubular shape of the leaves and burning smell of onions (touch and smell) and refreshing smell (smell), respectively. The entire booklet was made through the online graphic design platform CANVA and printed in Braille and enlarged font by the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind. Thus, it was concluded that accessibility is the inevitable way to guarantee citizenship and fundamental rights to all. That is why the need to "Accessitize the Environmental", because communication in EE will often require some skills and attributes. Accessibility can be one of these and we need to be prepared.