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Representa es sociais de meio ambiente: subsídios para a forma o continuada de professores Social representations of the environment: subsidies for the continuing education of school teachersKeywords: Educa o ambiental , Representa o do meio ambiente , Forma o de professores , Forma o de educador ambiental , Environmental education , Representation of the environment , Teacher training , Training of environmental educator Abstract: A forma o de educadores ambientais deve envolver, sempre que possível, processos contínuos de estudo, atualiza o e a valoriza o dos conhecimentos dos próprios educadores. Partindo desses pressupostos, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar as Representa es Sociais sobre o meio ambiente compartilhadas pelos professores das séries iniciais da Educa o Básica da cidade de Porto Rico, Estado do Paraná, Brasil, para indicar caminhos para a forma o continuada desses profissionais como Educadores Ambientais. Utilizamos a técnica de evoca o de palavras para identificar os possíveis elementos que comp em as representa es sociais, além 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 conveniência 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, também, 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 Paraná, 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′ 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.
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