Environmental education in science teaching: a study of the view of public school teachers in Sergipe

Abstract

Anthropogenic actions have a great impact on the environment. The human being is a master at changing nature. Therefore, understanding our influence on different natural ecosystems is an important requirement for the exercise of conscious citizenship, as well as understanding how individual actions can promote a collective and harmonious state of well-being among biological organisms, after all, we are planetary citizens and we are interconnected to other living beings. In this view, the present work seeks to verify the importance attributed to environmental education by teachers of curricular components related to natural sciences in their classes, and whether the inclusion of environmental themes and their problems in classes is aimed at developing a critical and emancipatory perspective of students.