Environmental awareness of EJA students from a multi-series room at the Porto Esperança Settlement Project in Confresa-MT

Abstract

This study presents the results of a pedagogical intervention aimed at promoting environmental awareness among students of a multi-tiered Youth and Adult Education (EJA) room and discuss alternatives in the quest for sustainability. Its objective was to develop reflections, debates and actions that sensitized these students on environmental issues and sustainable practices. This intervention was developed during the year 2016 and involved a room with students from the 1st and 2nd year of EJA High School. One peculiarity of this extension room is that it is owned by Waldir Bento da Costa State School, located in the district of Veranópolis, municipality of Confresa-MT. For that, research was done on the subject, field classes, lecture, reading of texts and group discussions in order to socialize their conceptions about the theme and the practices they experience. Some instruments of data collection were the essay texts that produced, the participant observation and the logbook record. Students have shown concern for the environment and will seek to practice sustainable actions in their daily practices. In this way, it is possible to perceive that inserting the environmental theme in the EJA of a rural school is a necessity and that this training will be more successful if it is focused on issues of everyday life and the balanced relationship with the environment.

Keywords

• environmental education
• eja
• environment
• sustainability