RECURSOS HÍDRICOS: PERCEPÇÃO DE ESTUDANTES E VEICULAÇÃO DA TEMÁTICA EM LIVROS DIDÁTICOS

Abstract

Considering the importance and the intensification of the degradation of water resources, and that to guarantee the effectiveness of actions of conservation of these resources it is fundamental to identify the way people perceive them, it was aimed to investigate how this resource is perceived by high school students, from ten public educational institutions (GO, Brazil), as well as their knowledge on the subject. For this, a questionnaire containing cartoons (textual genre different from the traditional questionnaires) was used, in which students should interpret them. Our results show that students' perceptions were not very holistic and that their knowledge about aspects related to water resources are superficial. In addition, we observed that their perceptions and knowledge were not significantly correlated with variables such as gender, age and class. We also carried out an evaluation of the contents related to the theme water resources present in textbooks of Biology, aiming to evaluate if the perceptions and knowledge of the students were correlated with the quality of these books. Our results show that there is no significant correlation between these variables, indicating that the quality (good or poor) of the contents conveyed in the textbooks do not guarantee the students' knowledge about water resources. Thus, our study reinforces the need to advance in the search for a basic training that values natural resources and that is capable of rescuing the omnilateral formation of the human being.