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Percepção ambiental de alunos e professores do entorno da Estação Ecológica de Caetés – Região Metropolitana do Recife-PE

2008; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/2175-7925.2008v21n1p147

2175-7925

Tatiana Marcela De Oliveira Bezerra, Ana Lícia Patriota Feliciano, Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves,

Animal and Plant Science Education

Environmental perception and education for teachers and students in the surroundings of the Ecological Reserve of Caetés, Metropolitan Region of Recife, Pernambuco. Environmental perception studies have been included in management projects that seek nature conservation. The main objec- tive of this work was to evaluate students’ and teachers’ environmental perceptions regarding a natural protected area (Caetés Ecological Station) that is situated in the surroundings of their schools, in order to support an program aimed at its conservation, which is a requisite to assure the con- servation of that protected area. In the first stage of the study, stu- dents were asked to write essays and to draw mental maps about their place of residence. In contrast, teachers answered a questionnaire about enviro- nmental issues related to their teaching experience. In the second stage, teachers attended a lecture and were guided by the authors on a tour around the ecological station. Students’ essays and drawings showed a manifest content of unveiled conscience, not necessarily linked to the presence of a protected area in their neighborhood. In their answers to the questionnaires, the teachers demonstrated little knowledge and interaction regarding the ecological station. However, after the lecture-and-tour activity, the teachers suggested that the political pedagogical project of their schools should include environmental education activities at the Caetés Ecological Station. There was a cognitive change among the teachers, since they demonstrated the intention of seeking a deeper and closer relationship with the local ecological station.