Educação ambiental na prática do pedagogo da educação infantil da rede municipal de ensino de Paranaguá-PR

Abstract

The present study deals with Environmental Education in Early Childhood Education, having as research object Environmental Education in pedagogical practice and as research subjects the pedagogues of the Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education of the teaching network of Paranaguá/PR, located in different regions: Ilha , rural area, industrial/port area, mangrove area. The research problem is: how does Environmental Education constitute the practice of educators from the Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education in the Paranaguá teaching network? The objectives are: general - to understand Environmental Education and its approaches to Early Childhood Education in the context of the pedagogical practices of the pedagogue at the Municipal Centers for Early Childhood Education in Paranaguá. The reference authors in this study were: Loureiro, Layrargues, Lima, Kramer, Oliveira e Souza, being for Environmental Education; Loureiro (2001; 2013); Layrargues (2014), Lima (2011), for Early Childhood Education and for pedagogical practice; Kramer (2005), Souza (2016) and Oliveira (2010 and 2012). Research with a qualitative approach of a documental nature and empirical field. The official documents and those from the Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education surveyed and documents on environmental education and early childhood education were used. Four semi-structured interviews were carried out with educators from the four Municipal Centers for Early Childhood Education. To analyze the content of the reports with the pedagogues, we adopted the interpretation from the perspective of Severino (2010). The research results point to the lack of critical and emancipatory environmental pedagogical practice in the CMEI's analyzed due to the lack of training to support educational policies that include environmental education in early childhood education.