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SILVA, Catia Antonia da  e  RAINHA, Felippe Andrade. A Teaching Methodology for Environmental Education at a School on the Shoreline of the Bay of Guanabara. RGCI [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.2, pp.181-192. ISSN 1646-8872.

With the aim of contributing to the debate on how important it is to make sense of the environmental education which is delivered in coastal areas, this article examines the activities conducted at a public school in the city of São Gonçalo, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. The methodology for teaching social-environmental education is presented such as applied by a research project entitled ‘Action Cartography and São Gonçalo Youth’, which, methodologically related to action cartography, puts two scientific disciplines (Geography and Sociology) in interaction with pedagogical practice (as favoured by the advancements that Paulo Freire’s notable contributions have led to). Environmental education needs to be problematised by bringing this debate into the analysis of social aspects of the issues which the discipline approaches, that is, into the analysis of the forms of social exclusion in the relationships between society and nature. There is also a need to discuss the causers of pollution, as well as endeavouring to help to build perceptions and sensitivities as to how new generations should be educated, the different forms that pollution assumes and the territorial consequences that it has on the everyday lives of residents, especially in metropolitan areas undergoing high land-use pressures. The teaching methodology which was applied to primary school sought to change habits, build perceptions, and encourage collective work. One of the results of the pedagogic activities was that they brought about an interaction between such types of knowledge as pupils, science and fishers bear, and that this helped to reveal problems, agents and solutions. Another result was the fact that the exercises in socio-environmental education reinforced the self-steam of pupils, especially of the many who, being related to artisanal fishers, saw how important the work of those relatives of theirs is not only for the maintenance of families but also for local cultural identity. Lastly, the pedagogic work proved fruitful also in activities, proposed to pupils, of making researches, interviews and texts about the space that they live in, all this causing them to produce representations in which they brought out and exercised their cultural identity and the social links that they have with their lived and conceived space: the city of São Gonçalo and the Bay of Guanabara.

Palavras-chave : Education; Action Cartography; Modernization; Pollution; Artisanal Fisheries.

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