Contribuições do curso superior de tecnologia em gestão ambiental do IFPE para a formação do sujeito ecológico

Abstract

The present paper portrays a study on the contributions of the Graduation Course of Technology in Environmental Management of the Federal Institute of Pernambuco, Campus Recife, to the formation of the ecological subject. The theoretical referential has as the main conceptual anchor the studies of Isabel C. Carvalho (2004 and 2005) about the ecological subject. We have also taken as a support some tittles of Leff (2012), Tristão (2004), Guimarães (2005, 2007) and BOFF (1999). To contextualize the theme, we have studied the trajectory of the environmental education in Brazil, as mediating and transforming the trajectory of the professionals in the environmental area. By recognizing the multifaceted character of the environment, we timely propose a theoretical interface of the ecological subject with the planetary subject. Thus, our theoretical perspective is supported on the writings of Isabel C. Carvalho and Leonardo Boff. From the theoretical and methodological point of view, the narrative paradigm (Ricoeur, 1994) showed the ways of the data construction and analysis. The themes around the main theme, the formation of the ecological subject, include the environmental good practices and the ecological environmental knowledge, which have also been supported by the hermeneutics, phenomenology and the narrative and they span both the analysis and discussion of the results. The data construction includes questionnaires and interviews carried out with students from the last three semesters of the graduation course. Considering the collected data, the Graduation Course of Technology in Environmental Management has contributed potentially to the development and formation of the ecological subject, by the structure of its curriculum, which through the addressed themes, the pedagogical dynamics developed by the professors, which offers the students experiences, make them appropriate the knowledge on the environmental themes, what makes it possible the promotion of the development of the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective of the environmental knowledge.