Análise da efectividade do projecto de educação ambiental ʺescola ecológicaʺna promoção de práticas pró-ambientais na Escola primária completa da Costa do Sol

Abstract

.This study analyzed the effectiveness of the project of Environmental Education ʺ Ecological Schoolʺin the promotion of pro-environmental practices in the Costa do Sol Primary School.Adopting an approach of qualitative nature, data were collected through the techniques of documentary analysis, semi-structured interview systematic observation and analyzed according to the technique of content analysis of Bardin(2011). Had a non-probability sampling by judgment, to constitute a sample of 15 elements, of which an environmental educator, a cleaning employee, a representative of the school management, four teachers and eight students of both genders. With the study it was concluded that the Ecological School Project contributed to the change of behaviour in the school community of the Escola Costa do Sol Primary School in relation to pro-environmental practices given by environmental educators. Through the study it could also be found that the SWOT analysis allows a detailed analysis of the determinants of the effectiveness of the Ecological School Project, determining its positive and negative points to improve its implementation in future projects or similar, enhancing the positive points and / or eliminating / correcting the negative points. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)