AS QUESTÕES AMBIENTAIS NA PERCEPÇÃO DE ALUNOS DE UMA ESCOLA DA REDE PÚBLICA DE MANAUS — AM

Abstract

The institutional Scholarship Program for Teaching Initiation (PIBID, in Portuguese) is part of the public education policies, and it makes it possible to straight bounds between universities and public schools. The program allows the academic to be in touch with the school routine to understand their relationships, the challenges, and the possibilities of thinking about learning strategies that enable the student to feel like a protagonist in the school context. The research aimed to understand the students’ perception of a public school in Manaus – AM about the environmental issues in the neighbourhood where they live. It is about a qualitative approach from the analysis of mental maps, parodies and scale models presented in an exhibition about the environment, identifying the problem, its causes, consequences, and alternatives, in the sense of conducting the student to rethink their condition of human being in the world. The works were made in teams according to their respective neighbourhoods, and the data collection took place through empirical observation. The mental maps and the texts highlighted the urban environmental problems in the capital of Amazonas, while the parodies went beyond the urban space of Manaus. Focusing on the natural aspects of the Amazon Forest, the environmental issues are highlighted, praising the diversity of the Amazonian nature, besides demonstrating deforestation and its consequences.

Keywords: mental maps; parodies; environmental perception; PIBID.