A alfabetização ecológica na formação do técnico nível médio em edificações

Abstract

The study presented here arose from the environmental crisis we have been experiencing; we believe that the understanding of this crisis process, as well as the elements that may minimize it, is of fundamental importance for all professionals, but especially for those who work in construction, given the impacts caused by construction of the works. Thus, we seek to answer the following research problem: What elements can be observed in the training process of the building technician that manifest signs of ecological literacy? To this end, we take Capra's precepts on ecological literacy as a reference, having as an institutional context of the research, the integrated high school technical course offered by IFAM. We follow the qualitative research and use questionnaires with open and closed questions, as well as documentary analysis, to identify evidence of ecological literacy among 22 students enrolled in the 3rd year of that course. After analyzing the built data, we found that there are elements that indicate a basic level of ecological literacy among students, however, there is some confusion between basic concepts related to Ecology. It was also possible to verify that, in the legal documents that guide the analyzed course, the formation of the building technician and the Basic Education as a whole, shows the necessity and importance of addressing the environmental issues in the formative process, as a way to life. sustainable. With this research, we hope to enable further discussions and reflections on the importance of ecological literacy for the building technician.