Tecendo educação ambiental para escola com alunos e alunas de Limpo Grande (Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso)

Abstract

The present work was realized with the sudents from “Limpo Grande” School, situated in “Várzea Grande”, “Mato Grosso”. This class was formed by 19 components (students) and it configured in a “multi-series” class, from the Elementary School. The main objective was to study the knowledge of the people who did not have a chance to learn about the Environment as a fertile ground for the Environmental Education to be given in the School Education. The subject of this research was dealt with a theorical picture whose frame was the Environment Education, in a permanent conjunction with the idea of the “Local” Knowledge, that is cultural and Education constitutes an important part. It was used as a methodic “base” the focal instruments of retraction: Drawing (as a non-verbal subject) and a Walking in the idea of the informal collocation in the process of learning. Both activities had disclosed that in the bulge on the infantile knowledge it has constructed and incorporated conceptions already existent from our Environment even though it was not a clear concept from the ready and the finished one and critical, it is though a concept. Product that made it clear to the possibility of the students being able to leave that infantile notion and to head to the roots of the Environmental Education inside the school. All this knowledge perceived in this process of investigation was understood as a sensibilizing, in a matter of a non scholarized knowledge and the scholarized knowledge, offeering voice, the guarantee from being of the child in the local culture and in the bigger discussions about the Envirionment equilibrium and conservation, the biodiversity and the “cultural” indentity.