Em busca da conservação ambiental: a contribuição da percepção ambiental para a formação e atuação dos profissionais da Química

O Mapeamento da Disciplina Química Ambiental nos Cursos de Graduação em Química das Universidades Paulistas

“…Essa falta de articulação entre os conceitos técnicos e as questões ambientais foi observada por alguns pesquisadores, como Leal e Marques (2008) e Freitas et al (2010). De acordo com esses autores, a DQA das universidades nas quais realizaram suas pesquisas instrumentalizam os alunos quanto a conceitos técnicos, mas poucas articulam as discussões entre Química e as questões socioambientais.…”

Environmental perception and activities in environmental education based on socio-ecological resilience

“…Environmental perception can be used to map the level of environmental complexity of students (FREITAS et al, 2010). In this work, the environmental AMBIENTE & EDUCAÇÃO ISSN-1413-8638 E-ISSN -2238-5533 v. 22, n. 1, p. 314-332, 2017 316 perception was captured using environment drawings strategy, deemed to be a reliable and efficient method for obtaining the environmental conception from any scholar age and even for non-students.…”

“…The data collection was based on previous experience in survey analysis and case studies applied in environmental perception (FREITAS, 2009;FREITAS et al, 2010) using questionnaires with structured and semi-structured questions, as well as images to collect perceptions and definitions about the environment. The definition of the sample was based on non-probabilistic sampling by judgment (BABBIE, 1999;REA, PARKER 2000), in which the researcher has the freedom to define the sample according to the research objectives (ALENCAR 2004).…”

“…Earlier studies (FREITAS et al, 2010;ABREU et al, 2008) have classified different actions as being comprised of the following categories: sensibility', 'comprehension', 'responsibility', and 'competence and citizenship'. The action indicated by each student was included into one of these categories after analysis and then compared with the results obtained by image analysis (environmental perception), using principal component analysis (PCA), which is a statistical procedure used to capture information from multivariate data (RENCHER, 2002).…”

“…This analysis is capable of finding a correlation between environmental perception and the action types indicated by students, in order to capture typical actions of individuals with reductionist to complex conceptions about the environment; these data can support the introduction of practices in environmental education related to the concept of socio-ecological resilience into the scholar and social medium of a given population. The level of awareness related to the categories above is the same as reported elsewhere (FREITAS et al, 2010): sensibility refers to an alert process to something happening in the environment and it is considered the first step to achieve systemic thinking in environmental education; teaching and comprehension refers to the knowledge about the components and mechanisms ruling the natural system; responsibility recognizes the human being as the main agent in determining and guaranteeing the planet conservation; competence and citizenship is related to the capacity of evaluating and acting in the environmental ISSN -2238-5533 v. 22, n.1, p. 314-332, 2017 system, by conserving the socio-ecological system on behalf of a common benefit, under technical knowledge and altruist domain.…”