Ações de educação ambiental na escolinha da biodiversidade do museu da vila, luís correia, piauí, brasil

Abstract

This research was developed in an Environmental Protected Area in the Parnaíba Delta and brought up the Environmental Education as the main theme to the developed actions focused on the waste issue, since it is a current problem for the whole society, because it deeply impacts the environment. This work presents developed actions by Biodiversity School of Vila Museum, which is a community museum and a cultural equipment located in an artisanal fishing village, Coqueiro da Praia, Luis Correia, state of Piaui. The goal of these studies and interventions is to potentialize, during the Covid-19 world crises, the project of Biodiversity School, which is part of a larger cultural project called Educative and Cultural Program of Vila Museum, from the Educational and Cultural Program of the Museology Plan of the Vila Museum, a supplementary body of the Federal University of Parnaiba Delta. The methodological

framework adopted was qualitative approach of the participatory-action- research type, besides bibliographical and documental research. The theorical

foundation sources were scientific papers, thesis, doctoral dissertations, books, laws, websites and institutional documents (resolutions, regulations and registration forms) from Professora Carmosina Martins da Rocha School and Federal University of Parnaíba Delta. The data collection process involved survey application, chat groups, workshops on waste issues, environmental and patrimonial education. The participants of this study were seven-year-old children and their families from Coqueiro da Praia neighborhood. To analyze the whole data, it was considered the Biodiversity School principles, which involve patrimonial education, social museology and environmental education as tool for social transformation. The research results expose the developed actions relevance to set up values, knowledge, skills, attitudes, competences to improve environmental protection. The results also highlight the role of children in the community through information and educational actions on disposal waste. It concludes that education gives the power to promote social changes, since it was possible to realize attitude changes related to environment preservation issues among the participants of Biodiversity School during the collective moments.