Educação ambiental no contexto escolar do ensino médio: um estudo realizado nas escolas estaduais de Lauro de Freitas

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze, as the state schools in the city of Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, located in APA Joanes-Ipitanga, develop and work Environmental Education and Ecological high school. The methodological approach adopted in this research, was the combined study (qualitative and quantitative) because of its potential to be applied in various contexts of educational research. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between the school and programs for environmental education in the context of interdisciplinarity and how they are included in school documents. Were also analyzed from this perspective, teacher training programs, legislation to EA and public policies developed by the government. For this study, questionnaires and structured interviews teachers were applied, managers and staff of the surveyed institutions. The results of the research indicate that environmental education in Brazil is well regulated, but lacks a more operational so that programs and projects proposed by the government reach effectively schools. The gap between the programs and their applicability in schools, run through the teacher training process. In this sense, a good strategy would be continued training, with topics on environmental education within the institution, in order to pursue dialogue to an interdisciplinary among teachers.