Educação ambiental em questão: percepções de estudantes finalistas em licenciatura em ciências sobre a sua formação inicial

Abstract

It can be understood that Environmental Education (EE) is a process that aims to form a world population conscious and concerned about the environment and the problems that concern it, engaging individual and collective work to solve current problems and prevent them from becoming repeat. Understanding the importance of EE, the objective of this work was to investigate the perceptions of graduates in the Bachelor of Science Chemistry course: Chemistry and Biology in relation to the presence of EE during their initial training process. Data collection took place using two instruments: a questionnaire and an interview guide, with six course graduates as participants. All participants indicated that they discussed EE in subjects during the course, with: Environmental Chemistry (100.0%), Instrumentation for Teaching Chemistry (50.0%) and General Ecology (50.0%) being the most cited. In addition to the course subjects, graduates cited other moments in which they discussed EE, with 83.3% saying they had participated in academic events such as course weeks, conferences and lectures, and 33.3% described participating in extension projects who worked at EE.