%0 Journal Article
%T Representa  es sociais de meio ambiente: subs¨ªdios para a forma  o continuada de professores Social representations of the environment: subsidies for the continuing education of school teachers
%A Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Magalh£¿es J¨²nior
%A Eduardo Augusto Tomanik
%J Ci¨ºncia & Educa£¿£¿o (Bauru)
%D 2013
%I Universidade Estadual Paulista
%X A forma  o de educadores ambientais deve envolver, sempre que poss¨ªvel, processos cont¨ªnuos de estudo, atualiza  o e a valoriza  o dos conhecimentos dos pr¨®prios educadores. Partindo desses pressupostos, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar as Representa  es Sociais sobre o meio ambiente compartilhadas pelos professores das s¨¦ries iniciais da Educa  o B¨¢sica da cidade de Porto Rico, Estado do Paran¨¢, Brasil, para indicar caminhos para a forma  o continuada desses profissionais como Educadores Ambientais. Utilizamos a t¨¦cnica de evoca  o de palavras para identificar os poss¨ªveis elementos que comp em as representa  es sociais, al¨¦m de entrevistas. Identificamos que tais representa  es s o caracterizadas por uma vis o naturalista de meio ambiente e que os professores possuem conhecimentos limitados sobre o ambiente local. Esses elementos indicam a conveni¨ºncia da oferta de cursos voltados para a transmiss o e discuss o de informa  es sobre o ambiente regional e para a compreens o de que os professores s o, tamb¨¦m, parte deste ambiente. The development of Environmental Educators must ideally be a continuous study process, reviewing of the state-of-the-art and with attention to the educators' experience. The goal of the present work was to investigate Social Representations about the environment, by Basic Education teachers from the City of Porto Rico, State of Paran¨¢, Brazil, to indicate ways for the continuing education of these Educators. We used the Free Evocation of Words technique and personal interviews in order to identify the possible elements constituting the Social Representations. We identified that the representations of the analyzed group are based on a naturalist point of view of the environment. It was also verified that, concerning the local environment, the teachers¡ä understanding is not well-founded. These findings support the need for courses devoted to the introduction and discussion of regional environment knowledge. Such studies can, subsequently, lead teachers to comprehend that they are also constituents of the environment.
%K Educa  o ambiental
%K Representa  o do meio ambiente
%K Forma  o de professores
%K Forma  o de educador ambiental
%K Environmental education
%K Representation of the environment
%K Teacher training
%K Training of environmental educator
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