O programa institucional de bolsa de iniciação à docência (PIBID/UNIFEI) e a formação de professores na perspectiva da temática ambiental.

Abstract

The Environmental Theme, within all levels of education and subjects , is pointed out as essential by educational specialists and the legislation regarding Environmental Education and Teacher Education. Thus, within this paper there are thoughts on the importance of the study and analysis of the Environmental Theme in teacher development through the project PIBID. A program aimed at involving teachers in development in the daily routine and activities of public schools. This involvement leads to the fusion of practice and theory as it really is. This research was developed at UNIFEI- Campus Itajubá, due to the fact that it holds certain pertinent characteristics to the study such as, the last two issues being executed with different methods and the participants belonging to the four teaching courses of the campus -Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Maths. The fusion and its analysis lead to the development of a critical and conscientious citizen and teacher who is aware of the current correlation between nature-society and the social environmental issues that are a result of a long historical process. The importance of teacher development is stressed as they need to be able to practice what has been learned regarding the Environmental Theme. As a general objective, there is a need to understand the inclusion of the Environmental Theme in the development of the proposals found in the project PIBID/UNIFEI which is composed of the Issues number 07/2018 (period 2018-2019 - interdisciplinary) and number 02/2020 (period 2020-2022 - disciplinary). In search for answers, two approaches were defined to collect data and develop this dissertation, 1) Analysis of the portfolios developed from 2018 to 2022 and 2) Semi-structured interview with institutional coordinators and field coordinators that were on duty during the timeframe mentioned and who were professors at the University at the same time. Due to unique context of this paper, it was determined to analyze data from Conservationists, Pragmatic and Critical Macro tendencies defined by the authors of the article “As Macrotendências Político-Pedagógicas da Educação Ambiental Brasileira”, which led to the findings that the project PIBID provides attainability to the professional development of the teaching students regarding the Environmental Theme in aspects which include interdisciplinarity. Throughout the research it was possible to conclude that the Environmental Theme was developed within the proposal number 07/2018, which had students from the four mentioned teaching courses - though following a conservationist/pragmatic tendency. And within the proposal 02/2020 in which the Theme was only developed by the Science and Biology teaching course students.