Educação ambiental nas escolas de Mato Grosso : avaliação do Programa Vamos Cuidar do Brasil com ênfase no tema água

Abstract

This work is made up from a diagnosis of the environmental education in formal Mato Grosso, through the analysis of projects developed by schools that participated in the IV National Conference Children and Youth for the Environment (IV CNIJMA), with an emphasis on water. This conference took place in 2013 and involved four sub-themes to be discussed in schools: water, earth, fire and air. The analysis involved quantitative and qualitative aspects of projects, as well as interviews with administrators, teachers, students and questionnaires sent by email to the participating schools. It was possible to carry out a critical analysis of the formal environmental education in Mato Grosso. The purpose of the conference was appropriate, since it provided young people a dialogic moment reflection and leadership must be present through the establishment of Com-Vidas departing from Freire's concept of Learning and Culture Circles. However, analysis of the projects shows that this perception is still incipient in the daily school, being necessary to broaden the dissemination and monitoring of conceptual proposals suggested by the Conference. In Mato Grosso, this difficulty may be associated with several factors, including the actual historical context of the state of occupation, linked the hegemony of agribusiness and its influence on political and economic aspects in addition to the own educational inefficiency. Among the Mato Grosso schools that participated in the IV CNIJMA, 29.5% are state public, 68% are municipal and public 2.5% belong to private network. Most of them are located in urban areas, accounting for 63.1% of the total. Already 36.9% of the schools that are in the countryside, 22.2% are settlement schools, 6.7% of indigenous schools, 4.4% of Quilombo schools. At first, the analysis of the projects showed that only 49.2% of schools identified the sub-theme chosen for their projects. It was possible to establish the subtheme of 82% of registered projects, which 58% corresponded to the subtheme land, 36% water, 4% and 2% air fire. It consisted in this survey, by the executors of the projects in schools, the lack of a critical approach in working with environmental education, the difficulty in integrating the content in an interdisciplinary way and misunderstanding of the geographical context of the river basin in which each school community It's inserted. With regard to public managers, proposers, no need to program the inclusion as a public policy, which has not occurred to date, in addition to methodological improvement and greater encouragement and support for the participation of schools in this type of program.