Revisitando a História da educação ambiental nos programas escolares gaúchos

Abstract

This paper is a bibliographic research in which we rescue the history of Environmental Education (EA) in public school in Rio Grande do Sul, by reading and analyzing the Official Teaching Programs in this state, from 1930 to 2000. We realized that during this period EA was connected to different values and interests and that this is the reason why it has shown distinct objectives, methodological orientations and policies. It has being associated to the Natural Sciences teaching and taught as a subject, only. It was just in the end of the 90s that it stopped being a margina1ized subject and the official proposes propounded its integration to the totality of the school curriculum. In the beginning of this millennium, Environmenta1 Education started to present its own political identity (critical and emancipatory). Key words: Environmental education, curriculum, schools.