Proposta metodológica para capacitação em educação ambiental por meio de oficinas temáticas e ambientes virtuais

Abstract

Searching for comfort and practicality brought to society many consequences, among which stands out the environmental degradation and the need for a change in the teaching and learning process. Traditional teaching has been losing its function for quite some time, and in its place, it is emerging new teaching methodologies, focused on Active and Meaningful Learning, associated to the technology of Virtual Learning Environments. Nevertheless, the repetition and dropout rates are still high. It is noticed that teachers are not prepared to practice active and meaningful learning. There is an insufficiency of training, and those available follow the traditional models. Considering the presented problems, the environmental degradation and the lack of training and materiais resources at schools, it is presented this propose. It aims to training teachers and environmental professionals in the water resources theme, through thematic workshops and virtual learning environment. The proposal constitutes in an extension distance course, with practicallaboratory and field activities. Defined the target-public, the schools that would participate and the parameters that would be analysed, it was prepared four classroom thematic workshops and the virtual learning environment. The proposal evaluation was realized through previous and finais questionnaires. It is understood that the applied methodological proceeds may be used for training teachers and to multiply information related to water resources, but some adjustments are need. It was identified that the virtual learning environment was too inflexible for applying innovative activities and activities that contemplate the active and meaningfullearning.