Um olhar de alunos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) sobre impactos ambientais no manguezal de Itaparica, Bahia

Abstract

The main objective of this work was to identify, from the perspective of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) students, from two municipal schools the main environmental impacts caused to the ecosystem mangrove in the municipality of Itaparica for the construction of an Illustrated Atlas about this ecosystem. These two school units were chosen for two main reasons: 1. Because they are on opposite sides of the municipality, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast, and 2. because they have students who have, notably, a relationship with the mangrove ecosystem. The research was structured in 3 stages distributed across four moments. Initially, students and teachers were presented with the main objectives of the research and the application of a questionnaire, supervised by class teachers, which made it possible to collect information that allowed us to draw up a detailed profile of EJA students from two schools in the municipality of Itaparica, showing the direct relationship of most of these with the mangrove ecosystem. Next, there was an expository class on the mangrove ecosystem and, the next moment, boards were made available containing images of species that inhabit the mangrove forest so that students could identify them in the way they knew them. In this fourth moment, the information collected, in an ethnoecological approach, served to make a comparison between the students' quotes about the richness of the mangrove and what we found in the literature. All the data systematically organized made it possible to build the Educational Product that was the Illustrated Atlas on the Itaparica mangrove ecosystem. The research highlighted the need to delve deeper into the topic, especially in the classroom, even though some of the students indicated that issues related to the mangrove ecosystem were discussed in the classroom. The results also indicate the importance of using environmental education in a critical and emancipatory approach.