A educação ambiental no curso técnico de nível médio em Agropecuária na forma integrada do IFAM/Campus Maués

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate Environmental Education in the Agricultural Medium Level Technical Course a Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Amazon/ Maués Campus (IFAM / CMA), by the description and analysis from the Environmental Education insertion in the curriculum and teaching plans, as well as to record the focused activities on Environmental Education carried out at IFAM/CMA scope and the teachers and students environmental perception in the referred course. The Course Plan analysis revealed an Environmental Education specific discipline absence, being this necessity supplied for some inserted activities in the institutional activities and by Agroecology discipline. Teachers' teaching plans were linked to the dominant paradigm(Cartesian), with contents and methodologies standardization, without interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary activities specification. The application result of the New Ecological Paradigm (NPE) scale reflected that both teachers and students are inserted within the New Ecological Paradigm, demonstrating that the research subjects come up with an ecological consciousness.