Espaço não-formal: uma proposta de ensino para a formação de um cidadão socioambiental

Abstract

Biology is an essential discipline for understanding ecosystems, as they are changed and how these changes affect the environment, the challenge Biology teaching to develop the ability to think logically and critically, is hardly achieved since the practice of the classroom, the reality found is of a governing teaching, authoritative and surrounded by lack of interest in doing something different from the students as well as teachers, so what we see is only the transmission of knowledge. Non-formal spaces have been constituted as a field for various research in education that seek mainly to understand the relationships between non-formal spaces and formal education in Brazil. Museums, zoos, and others have been studied, in partnership with schools as places conducive to the realization of environmental education projects, and museums and science centers have received the attention of researchers for involvement of the school community capability with the scientific culture. Thus, this study aimed to develop and analyze a practical activity in non-formal space in order to contribute to the formation of environmental citizens. The methodology used was a research-action adaptation based on the basic cycle of research-action that has four stages, plan, implement, describe and evaluate. The survey was conducted with four groups of the 2nd year of high school to technical built a Federal Institute. The results were significant in student learning because the activity has provided a new approach that made it possible to create a closer relationship between the students and the teaching of biology, which intensified the contact between students and nature, awakened environmental awareness and new attitudes towards the environment and the organisms studied in order to develop a sustainable conduct.