Educando nas aguas do Pirajuçara - Uma proposta de Educação Ambiental

Abstract

This contribution presents a training course for public school teachers which focuses on water resources and environmental education. Through a interdisciplinary approach, many conceptions such as physical characteristics, historical, social, economic and environmental aspects were developed using Pirajuçara river Basin as a territorial and environmental unity. Aspects such as society participation, an evaluation of environmental degradation in water resources and perception of the realty of the basin were considered, to give participants support to develop their own projects and actions in their schools. New methodologies, based on space and temporal knowledge and research of local realty, were presented and discussed with participants. Hydrographic basin models were constructed with cartographic representation of the terrain which associated with field work helped complete the panorama of Pirajuçara basin. As a result the course introduces a more integrated view of all socio-environmental issues in the local basin and helpes the teachers to elaborate their projects in the classroom using the acquired knowledge.