Percepções e Representações Socioambientais de estudantes brasileiros e portugueses sobre o Meio Ambiente evidenciadas em desenhos

Abstract

The human interaction with the environment could be understood as an initial condition of our species in a biophilic relationship with influences our family, community and school context. This research analyzed the perceptions and social and environment representations of Brazilian and Portuguese students, in relation to environment and the elements that constituted, through drawings. The quantitative and qualitative methodology was used utilizing the content and discretionary analysis applied to 343 students, enrolled in a total of 13 public municipal schools in Brazilian and Portuguese cities. The systematic analysis of the drawings found that the students represents the environmental problematic referencing the human beings as protagonist. One of the current anthropic problems, we emphasize the solid waste as one of the major factors of social and environmental impact. We verify in the students a big pro-environmental concern. Regardless of regions and countries, students transcend the need for behavioral changes and the paradigms in humans with the environment.