Diretrizes curriculares nacionais para a educação ambiental: proposição de metodologia para plano de gestão ambiental em instituições de ensino superior

Abstract

In this study, the guidelines of the National Curricular Guidelines for an Environmental Education (DCNEA) - Resolution of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) No. 02 of June 15, 12 - were used as a legal basis for an analysis of Pedagogical Projects of Forestry Engineering Courses, and Environmental Management Plans (PGA) of three federal public universities. Other legislations that deal with the Brazilian environmental theme were also used, emphasizing a National Environment Policy of 1981, considering the Brazilian constitutions, mainly the Federal Constitution of 1988 and National Policy for Environmental Education, in order to identify how these legislations contributed for the construction of DCNEA. The aim of the research was to analyze the National Curriculum Guidelines for Environmental Education (DCNEA) in organizing curriculum for Forest Engineering courses and to propose a methodology for the construction of an Environmental Management Plan that integrates the various institutional planning instruments. The study was subdivided into four chapters, the first of which is a literature review for the conceptualization of Environmental Education (EA), socio-environmental ethics and other concepts used during the research in its critical contours. In Chapters Two and Three the Forest Engineering PPPs (PGA) were studied from the following institutions that obtained the best positions at ENADE 2011: Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) and Federal University of São Carlos ( UFScar). The study was carried out by means of the analysis of its three PPCs and PGA in what refers mainly to the Articles; 12, which presents the principles of EE; Article 13, which sets the objectives of EA; And Article 14. In chapter four, the socio-environmental ethics highlighted in Article 9 of the DCNEA / 2012 guides the construction and development of the Environmental Management Plan (PGA) of higher education institutions from a socio-environmental perspective, the focus of research in this fourth chapter. The methodology used for this study was qualitative, based on bibliographical research of literature review, and subdivided into stages with construction of documentary analysis script used in chapters two and three. It was concluded that one of the principles of DCNEA is sustainability. In the PGAs, in agreement with the DCNEA, it was found that the objectives proposed for EA still need to reach a higher level of articulation with the CFP, since few actions have been described by the documents analyzed. There is a lack of methodological tools that describe the paths already taken by higher institutions that have PGA consolidated and approved in the higher councils.