O processo de formação socioambiental da Escola Estadual de Referência Professor Alfredo Freyre - Recife - PE - Brasil: um olhar ecopedagógico sobre resíduos sólidos

Abstract

This research is case study that has as main objective to analyze the process of student in environmental education of the School of Medium Learnig Reference Alfredo Freyre, located in Agua Fria district, North of Recife, about the generation and disposal of solid waste, with the elaboration of a proposal for action in the school community that addresses the issues environmental education and solid waste. To collect data used a semi-structured questionnaires with open and closed questions, applied in nine high school teachers, and twenty-eight students the first year and twenty-two of the third year. A qualitative analysis of the collected data and also a documentary analysis was made. The survey data revealed: that a significant percentage of students of the first and third years, have a conservation representation on the subject of the environment; there is the concern of students in relation to environmental issues; that students have knowledge of environmental education works in school; there are separate activities of waste produced in the school; there is discussion on topics related to environmental issues in the classroom, by the teachers of disciplines of hard and health sciences, differently of what happens with the disciplines related to the humanities, however, some exceptions have been verified as the work of teachers of human rights disciplines when dealing with issues related to the environment; that the school's faculty consists mostly of post-graduate teachers, with more than fifteen years of teaching, beeing this level of training a positive factor for change in pedagogic practice; that teachers use different sources for information on environmental issues, however, there are structural and financial limitations that can lead to demotivation. There are advances in teaching practice, because they make researchs on the environment and has projects, but it is not effective for everyone, but school can move forward in this direction. This indicates that they must carry out some environmental education activities for the implementation of Scholar Agenda 21 in the Pedagogical Political Project of the school as an instrument of reflection and discussion aiming to organize the educational work to form trained citizens that are able to interact without problems in the socioeconomic, political and cultural environmet.