O ENSINO DE QUÍMICA E A PRESERVAÇÃO DO MEIO AMBIENTE: aA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NAS ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS BRASILEIRAS DE EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA

Abstract

The insertion of Environmental Education in formal education is a topic that is much discussed today, but practices that have not yet been consolidated. Environmental problems are increasingly in evidence at a global level, damaging nature and the quality of life of man, which puts the future of humanity at risk. To bring this debate to society, education for environmental preservation in schools is foreseen in the legislation in an inter, multi and transdisciplinary way. And therefore, this work aims to evaluate the practices of environmental education in the teaching of chemistry in public basic education schools through a bibliographical review. In the first moment, a survey was carried out of the guiding questions of the research and a search for works such as articles in the SciELO databases, using the keywords: "education", "environmental", "teaching" and "chemistry", simultaneously and in the CAPES and Google Scholar journals with the subject: “Environmental education in Chemistry teaching” and “environmental preservation in schools”, in the period between 2000 and 2022. A search of documents of the Brazilian legislation on Environmental Education was also carried out. In all, 50 article titles were selected and, after reading the abstracts, 13 were chosen to carry out the work. The studies pointed to the importance of inserting environmental education in schools, especially in science and chemistry disciplines, highlighting the school as a fundamental space for the formation of the individual responsible for the preservation of the environment.