Análise da integração da educação ambiental nas práticas pedagógicas dos professores da Escola Secundária de Bedene Machava em Maputo

Abstract

In this study, the integration of environmental education into the pedagogical practices of teachers at the Bedene Machava Secondary School was analyzed. The study has an exploratory, empirical nature and was based on a qualitative approach, which used structured interviews and systematic observation for data collection and content analysis for data interpretation. Five 12th Class teachers who teach the subjects of History, Portuguese, Geography, French and Philosophy participated in the study. The results obtained indicate that environmental education is integrated into its pedagogical practices as an appendix and integrating axis, through strategies characterized by their participatory nature that instigate students’ interest in the subjects studied. Furthermore, the results show that teachers’ pedagogical practices are are based on conceptions of the environment as a problem, nature and as a resource and, one of the consequences of this, is that teachers find it difficult to introduce environmental education in some themes because they believe that there are specific environmental education themes. Therefore, the study recommends that teachers receive training in environmental education matters to expand their ways of conceiving the environment and, consequently, of working with environmental issues in their subjects(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)