Teaching materials used at a municipal school in Rio de Janeiro, considerations in the light of the treaty on environmental education

Abstract

This essay aims to understand whether teaching materials used at a municipal school Rio de Janeiro incorporates the environmental education principles established by the Treaty on Environmental Education for Sustainable Societies and Global Responsibility. To this end, this research applied content analysis to three materials, the school’s PoliticalPedagogical Project, issues of the municipal ‘Cadernos Pedagógicos’ and issues the ‘Cientistas do Amanhã’ collection, all in the light. The results indicate that such materials, in general, encourage science education and lack critical and political approaches of local environmental conflicts and justice. Nevertheless, it concludes that the documents analyzed align with some principles of the Treaty. Finally, it understands the importance that teaching materials, pedagogical practices, the training of teachers and the guiding institutional documents of the school are integrated with each other, and that the principles on environmental education can be the basis for this integration.

Keywords

• educação ambiental formal
• análise de conteúdo
• conflitos