Collective construction of school environmental education indicators
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Therefore, this research presents an analysis of the process of participatory construction of a matrix of Environmental Education (EE) indicators to measure the progress of the environmental dimension of schools. Eighty-four persons from the school community of nine state public schools located in the city of Curitiba, state of Paraná, Brazil, participated in the study. The methodological approach chosen was the qualitative approach. We used documentary, bibliographic research and participative methodologies for the production of data. The process subsidized the development and improvement of an EE matrix, which has three dimensions: management, curriculum and physical space, including ten indicators and fifty descriptive questions. The participants evaluated the work in a positive way. The work developed allowed reflections on the socio-environmental conditions of each school, generating knowledge of the collective work and the environmental theme from the challenge of establishing evaluation indicators. The results indicated the potential of the tool to promote a collective reflection aiming at action-reflection-action in relation to EE in the school context.
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