UNIDADES DE CONSERVAÇÃO: ESPAÇOS NÃO FORMAIS COMO POTENCIAL DIDÁTICO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NO IFF-CAMPUS ITAPERUNA

Environmental Education (EA) in formal and non-formal spaces has been of great relevance to raise awareness and favor the minimization of environmental problems in contemporary society in search of a new socio-environmental reality. In view of omnilateral, polytechnical training and work as an educational principle in Vocational and Technological Education (EFA), the following research problem arose: How to develop EE in EFA in an integrated way in the course of the information and communication technological axis from the use of Conservation Units (UCs) and their didactic potential as non-formal spaces? In order to answer this problem, the general objective of this research was outlined: to evaluate the use of UCs as a non-formal space to favor the development of EA at the IFF-Campus Itaperuna. The methodology used is qualitative and exploratory, the method was phenomenological with the technical procedures of documentary research and action research. For this purpose, the pedagogical project of the IFF-Campus Itaperuna integrated technical education course was analyzed within the scope of the EA and the management plan of the UCs in the municipality of Itaperuna to choose the UC to be part of the didactic sequence developed and applied in the 2nd year of the Computer Technician course at IFF-Campus Itaperuna. The didactic sequence, based on the theoretical Antoni Zabala, has an interdisciplinary character through integrative activities that involved technical discipline and general discipline. Questionnaires, interviews and a field diary were used to collect data. The research results show that the didactic sequence reached the proposed objectives and confirmed the didactic potential of the UCs for promoting AE in a reflective and active way.
Keywords: Environmental education. Professional and Technological Education. Interdisciplinarity. Conservation units.