Trilha interpretativa em Unidade de Conservação: espaço pedagógico para o ensino de gestão ambiental e ecologia na Amazônia

Abstract

In the effort to combat the destruction of ecosystems are projects and research related to conservation of the environment and conservation education. Understanding the importance of teaching for conservation, we developed the study in Conservation Units with emphasis on the Interpretive Tracks - TI's, thus developing an alliance between integrated curricular teaching with natural environments through practical field lessons with the use of IT as a pedagogical space. The direct contact with the object of study and with the field practices as methodology can provide a better assimilation of the contents. Thus, we come to the problematic: How to provide teaching-learning processes reconciling theoretical, field and laboratory classes for teaching and learning in the disciplines of Environmental Management and Ecology of the Amazon? Where the general objective of the study was to investigate how the use of interpretive trails can contribute in the teaching-learning process of Environmental Management and Ecology of the Amazon. The specific objectives were to use interpretive trails as a pedagogical space to develop theoretical and practical classes on ecological, ecological and environmental concepts, processes and interactions; 2) To promote collections of soil, litter, providing alternative teaching and contextualized learning with the Amazon region from the use of our natural resources; 3) To implement interpretive trails for education based on environmental perception; 4) To elaborate a Guide for instrumentalization of tracks to understand the concepts related to Environmental Management and Ecology of the Amazon, using the fauna, flora, soil and water resources existing in the TIs as a teaching and learning resource of Environmental Management and Ecology of the Amazon. The research was developed in the UC of the category Private Reserve of Natural Heritage - RPPN entitled Dr. Daisaku Ikeda and managed by the Center for Environmental Research and Studies of Amazonas - CEPEAM and Soka Institute. The subjects of the research were 10 students in the discipline of Environmental Management and 20 students of the discipline of Ecology of the Amazon graduates belonging to the Degree in Biological Sciences of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas - IFAM Campus Center. The methodology used had a qualitative approach. Using questionnaires, lesson plans and field records as collection instruments. The methodological course was the diagnostic survey, the intervention and the verification of the learning. For the intervention stage, the lectures were used in the classroom and in the laboratory at the IFAM Campus Center and field classes in the TIs at RPPN Dr. Daisaku Ikeda. Likewise, the verification of learning took place through questionnaires and a signaling workshop. The results show that learning about the subjects selected and worked on the TIs has taken place, in addition to contributing to sensitize students to the use of IT in UC as a pedagogical space for visits by educational institutions.