The atmospheric pollution in the context of the environmental education: experiences and challenges in the interdisciplinary work at a private school in Contagem-MG

Abstract

This paper aims, as its general objective, to raise, by means of interviews with the teachers involved, issues on the obstacles of the application of the interdisciplinary project of environmental education with emphasis on atmospheric pollution, at a private school in Contagem, in Minas Gerais State. The development was based on methodological procedures performed by means of a bibliographical research and case study, having as subject of the research high school teachers and the pedagogic coordinator who work in the morning at a downtown school in the municipal district of Contagem. The techniques used for the collection of data were the semi-structuralized interviews and reports derived from the interdisciplinary project developed. The results have demonstrated that the development of projects that have the interdisciplinary as their goal, even being a theme of the teachers' general knowledge, still faces a series of challenges that go from the absence of schools infrastructure and the directors' general support, to issues related to the absence of a more complete pedagogic political project which, in fact, contemplates subjects of the students' real interest. Keywords: Environment; Pollution; Interdisciplinary; Projects; Environmental Education