The looks above the environment in different moments of schooling

Abstract

In this narrative research, we aimed to characterize conceptions of environment of 181 students in the Fundamental Teach (5° and r grades), medium teach (3° grade) and at university (4° and the last semester of pedagogy), verifying possibles distinctions of complexity. The instrument applied was a questionnaire. The analysis of the answers noticed that conceptions of environment are social representations, because they are, at the same time, in the base of behaviors and interpersonal communication, exposing experiences and cultural values socially configured. We realized the predominant of two beliefs between the subjects, influenced by the scholar praxis and bay midia: the environment where I leave, I am and I'll go, the scene of interactions between the homo sapiens with himself and with other components of the environment; life manancial, source of the elements that ensure the existence. From those conceptions, it appears two categories: the universal environment, whose limits may extrapolate the land atmosphere, being plain with peace and harmony and configured by all the relations between many environmental members; the man's environment, product of our existence, fined by culture and technology. We noticed intense anthropocentrism in the subjects that find themselves privileged for being the especie capable of deciding the environment's destiny. Those may help both, environment education and science education, turned to the relations between us and the other environmental integrants

Keywords

• ambiente
• concepções educação ambiental
• educação em ciências