A temática da água desenvolvida na disciplina de Ciências numa perspectiva da educação ambiental: avaliando uma experiência no ensino fundamental
Abstract
The thematic of water was developed by the researcher in 2002, when
she taught Science to 5th grade students from Elementary School, in an
environmental approach. This research tried to investigate in which ways some
elements from Science Teaching may contribute to students build a critical
consciousness face to environmental problems. Our view concentrates on the
educational process, recovering the developed experience and meeting those
students again two years later, when they were on 7th grade by the time the
researcher wasn t their teacher anymore. In this way, the aim was to verify if
there were some references to the activities they experienced two years ago in
their arguments. Regarding the methodologic aspects, we opted for a qualitative
approach. To collect data we used some interviews and comprehension
activities about the thematic of water that made by those students. We tried to
analysed through theoreticals references, Paulo Freire s ideas and some
Environmental Education principles in which way we might understand, through
the students arguments, the knowledge acquisition developed according to na
environmental approach and some indictions about the building of a critical
point of view about the world.