THE REGULAR SCHOOLING AND THE FORMAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: RISING, PRINCIPLES AND NORMATIVE ELEMENTS
The present essay aims to discuss the Environmental Education within regular school considering the historical path of its insertion and the main normative elements that rules it. For that, the study is divided in three sections. Firstly, before going to the Environmental Education's specifics, there's the concern of familiarizing the reader about the Brazilian formal education bringing, in the two first sections of the essay, laws and principles that guide the different levels and modalities of education. Following, in the three last sections, discussing Environmental Education, it gives attention to a brief historical background on the rising of this field of knowledge and then discussing the rules that regulate its practice in regular education. Lastly, it illustrates with some academic works a little bit of the school practice in Environmental Education realized by some different levels and modalities of teaching within the country.
A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NOS PROJETOS POLÍTICO-PEDAGÓGICOS DAS ESCOLAS MUNICIPAIS DE ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL DA CIDADE DE ARARAQUARA/SP
Nesse artigo descrevemos e analisamos as propostas de Educacao Ambiental contidas nos Projetos Politico-Pedagogicos (PPP) de oito escolas de Ensino Fundamental da rede municipal de Araraquara, Estado de Sao Paulo. Com a finalidade de detalhar as referencias sobre os temas e as atividades relacionadas a Meio Ambiente contidas nos PPP, foi elaborado um roteiro e as informacoes obtidas foram separadas em duas categorias: a) conteudos e atividades; b) fundamentos teoricos. Observou-se que, embora sete dos PPP apontem trabalhos com a tematica ambiental, eles nao trazem indicacoes que permitam identificar fundamentos teoricos e nmetodologicos para as acoes programadas.
O DIREITO AMBIENTAL NA SALA DE AULA: SIGNIFICADOS DE UMA PRÁTICA EDUCATIVA NO ENSINO MÉDIO Environmental law at classroom: meanings of an educational practice in High School level
In this paper we present an experience related to environmental education that was accom- plished with high school students. The educational material based on the legal process, was offered to high school students in a short term course in which the content was about the social and environ- mental impacts caused by the creation of the water reservoir at the Tres Irmaos Hydroelectric Power Plant , that was built in the Tiete river, in the State of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. The main focus of the research was to analyze the potential of this case of environmental rights in order to support the educational practice within environmental education. The short term course was based on dialogued in the classes, working groups and dramatizations. By the end of the activities interviews were made with the students aiming to comprehend the meanings given by them of the whole educational expe- rience. The analysis of these interviews, by a phenomenological approach, made it possible to con- struct and to discuss some perspectives that seemed potentially useful in exploring environmental rights at the basic school level.