A interdisciplinaridade no ensino de biologia por meio da educação ambiental

Abstract

Given the complexity of existing socio-environmental conflicts as a consequence of relationships that threaten the diversity of environmental representations, this study presents an analysis of interdisciplinary activities, based on ecopedagogy and educommunication, developed in the light of critical environmental education, aiming at meaningful learning; based on the verification of environmental conceptions and the investigation of local environmental themes, reflective discussion generetors on the ways of acting in the world, as well as the organization of an interdisciplinary didactic sequence that offers subsidies for the interpretation of the historical and cultural contexts in which they live. Under a quanti-qualitative approach, the results were extracted from the analysis of the content of systematic observation of environmental concepts, illustrated through photographic records and speeches made in semi-structured interviews. The collected data show that the naturalistic view presented by the students reduces the environment to elements of nature and that the environmental problems identified by them and they are those related only to nature. However, based on the development of interdisciplinary ecopedagogical practices based on generators themes, of interest to students, an itinerary for the construction of new interpretations about the environment was designed, leading them to consider, in addition to the elements of nature, the social, historical and cultural dimensions as determining factors of the environment, approaching the globalizing environmental vision. Therefore, we believe that environmental education critical with an interdisciplinary approach offers ways for interconnect knowledge, new and old, towards overcoming the fragmentation of knowledge, with a view to emancipatory education and enables the understanding of the social and political responsibility of the school community in search the experience of sustainable relationships.