SAÚDE E MEIO AMBIENTE NO CURRÍCULO DE ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL EM IMPERATRIZ-MA.

Abstract

The studies about the inclusion of Health and Environment in the transversality of school subjects have been an object of concern to many scholars such as in this subject areas as in educational one. The debate of citizenship has included the school as a privileged space for the development of educational practices in environmental and health areas. The inclusion of cross-cutting themes in the Brazilian school curriculum fits into the expansion of the functions conferred to school today. This paper aims to analyze the insertion of Health and Environment in the curriculum of public elementary school of Imperatriz, Maranhão. For that it was developed a kind of documentary research, with a descriptive, analytical and exploratory nature, involving a qualitative approach. In this work, official documents of national, state and municipal level, and files of the investigated schools, as Political Pedagogical Project, Disciplinary and (or) Interdisciplinary Projects in Health and the environmental area were used. The bibliographic source held in books, journal articles, academic papers and conference proceedings were used too. The survey area of this work was consisted of five public elementary schools, in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão, included in the Sustainable Schools program. Four of the schools surveyed are located in the urban periphery and one, in the rural municipality. For data analysis was adopted the procedures of content analysis based on the categories constructed from the works of the authors consulted, investigated documents and materials. The discussions are based on the concepts of citizen school, of interdisciplinarity and mainstreaming, and they were guided by the concepts of Health and Environment, contained in the Brazilian educational legislation as the National Curricular Parameters (PCN), the Curriculum Frameworks of Maranhão (RCEM) , in Handbook of Sustainable Schools and the decisions of national and international forums on Education, Health and Environment. The results reveal the need to review the process of mainstreaming and interdisciplinarity of themes of Health and Environment in the curriculum of schools included in the survey. The Political Pedagogical Project (PPP) analyzed allow us to observe the teaching practice of the schools surveyed is still jarring of the proposals submitted in the official documents, which assumes a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary approach of these themes, in order to integrate knowledge from various areas.