EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION OF GEOGRAPHY CLASSES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN THE CITY OF JOÃO ALFREDO – PERNAMBUCO, BR

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how Environmental Education (EE) is being worked in Geography classes in Elementary School in the municipality of João Alfredo - PE in the light of a methodology of qualitative and exploratory approach. As procedures for analysis and data collection, bibliographic research was carried out, together with a survey using a questionnaire, applied to teachers who teach Geography in the Elementary School in the municipality of João Alfredo - PE. From the results obtained, it can be concluded that teachers who teach Geography, for the most part, have difficulties in working the themes of EE due to some factors, such as, for example, the fact that the BNCC does not value the EE, lack of support from the management team (managers and coordinators), difficulties to teaching materials beyond the textbook, limited workload, and lack of training in geography (degree) by many professionals who teach geography in the municipal network of the municipality João Alfredo. It was also reported by respondents that the Covid-19 pandemic motivated them to work on environmental education recurrently, showing its importance in the context of teaching Geography.