EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NA FORMAÇÃO DO TECNÓLOGO DO INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO, CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DO ESTADO DE GOIÁS.

Abstract

This thesis resulted from a theoretical-descriptive and documental nature investigation, which sought to analyze environmental education (E.E) in technologist education by the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Goiás (IFG). This study was performed based on the survey and analysis of legal instruments at federal level attempting to identity the determinations concerning the E.E and the documents produced by IFG and their assimilation in professional education. The considerations produced aimed to verify how the environmental issues are discussed in the proposals of professional education of technologist in IFG. The specific objectives were: (a) survey and analyze the main documents of international discussion forums about E.E. as well as the legal documents produced in Brazil, related to E.E. in professional education; (b) survey and analyze the main documents produced in the IFG amenable to highlight their commitment to the implementation of the E.E.; (c) conduct an analysis of Pedagogical Political Projects of technology courses offered on Goiania campus, looking for evidence of work with E.E. The problem guiding this research was: What is the degree of commitment of the IFG with the development of environmental education, manifested in their official documents? For the understanding the phenomenon, the research was guided by the historical materialist dialect method. Conducting investigative referrals, we tried to follow the precepts of qualitative analysis in the treatment of the obtained data in the legal documents, which legally endorse the environmental and professional education in Brazil and in IFG, in a historical-critical approach. The importance of this investigation lies in the fact that despite the significant amount of academic output on environmental education in Brazil, few reports are available on environmental education in technical education form, which is essential for sustainable technological development, by implementing the conscious action of the citizen worker. The results obtained in this research point to a gap of the IFG, in the implementation of environmental education, in line with the Federal Legislation of the 1970s, but in disagreement with the text of the FC 88, Federal Law Nº 9795 and resolution Nº 2 of the National Curriculum Guidelines for environmental education.