Práticas pedagógicas de educação ambiental na Escola Estadual Indígena Tupinambá do Acuípe de Baixo em Ilhéus-BA

Abstract

The main objective of Environmental Education is to promote the conservation of biodiversity, also considering individual, social and community self-fulfillment, through practices that develop benefits to the environment and quality of life. Increasing in every society. This research seeks to identify how the pedagogical practices of environmental education take place at the Tupinambá Indigenous State College of Acuípe de Baixo in Ilhéus – BA. From this, it is intended to understand if there are in the educational institution reflections of the legal and social effects foreseen in the legal provisions that guarantee the promotion of environmental education, in addition to the awareness to preserve the environment and resume their own ethnic identity. A qualitative methodology was applied, through bibliographical research and data collection, through the Matrix of Environmental Education Indicators for the Assessment of Socioenvironmental Sustainability at School. In addition, it included questionnaires and interviews with teachers, managers and school leaders, in an attempt to produce a case study of Indigenous Environmental Education in the aforementioned school located in a Tupinambá indigenous community. Contrasting the data obtained with the legislation and Public Policies in force. Thus, the work intends to give feedback to the Government and educational institutions, society, especially the local population, about the reality of EE in an indigenous school, its specificities, needs and potential, and how this can be improved. It is noteworthy that during the research it was noticed that the existing EE in the school has important knowledge and practices that need to be valued and that can even be replicated in other schools and thus contribute to the implementation of a critical, transversal and continuous EE