Environmental Education and its practices as an exercise of citizenship in the Basic School

Abstract

Environmental Education is of paramount importance to society, especially with regard to raising awareness of individuals in relation to the environment in which they operate, always aiming at an excellent quality of life without harming the environment. Therefore, this approachin the educational field must be implemented through dialectics and interdisciplinarity, with the aim of establishing relationships between the use of natural resources and the balance between man and the environment. Therefore, this study analyzed the importance of the Environmental Education approach in Basic Education, such as the challenges faced by educators in school practice for the effective exercise of citizenship. Among the observed difficulties, the greatest emphasis was on limiting pedagogical and financial resources, assisting methodological materials, shortage of teacher training to address the diverse peculiarities and specificities of the theme, content gaps for interdisciplinary practices, resistance to interdisciplinary work and insecurity in environmental approaches. These reasons reduce advances in the school context, since they have a great responsibility in the formation of sensitive and participative citizens, capable of spreading knowledge and developing positive actions for society.