AVALIAÇÃO DA INSERÇÃO DA TEMÁTICA AMBIENTAL POR MEIO DAS TIC’s NO COTIDIANO ESCOLAR DE UM COLÉGIO PRIVADO, PITANGA –PR: ESTUDO DE CASO

Abstract

The importance of Environmental Education (EE) is unquestionable in the educational process to the formation of students able to take informed decisions and participate in discussions in the community with regard to environmental issues. Ahead of the problems lived in our society, the treatment of environment issues in formal educations is one of the conditions that contributed to changes and transformations of the capitalism system that encouraged overconsumption and strengthened social inequality. Even so, the introduction of EE in the school environment that faces many challenges that pass, including, the lack of structures of education system that most often still working in the traditional way. Implement the EE in the school context requires change of and attitude for a participatory debate about environmental issues in the community is inserted. Thus, this research aimed promotes, follow and assess the process of environmental issues integration in the context of school João Paulo II – Pitanga – PR. As a product of this process produced educational website as integrator catalyst factor of the process. This research supported on qualitative approach to be the one of that best fits the object of this investigation, which is the type case study. The whole process, involve moments of investigation of environmental conceptions of the school community, formation and achievement of environmental activities and production of educational website, the assessment of the process revealed significant progress of integration of EE by the college, specially the involvement of the whole school around environmental issues and involvement of teachers from different disciplines. The website appears to be important as they promoted a broad socialization of activities, research source and a memory of activities accomplished. Although there has been progress, these activities achieved by teachers mostly demonstrated limitations about critically approach.