Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MagnusJBG.pdf: 912354 bytes, checksum: 8a5480a8e907062beed423e4084cfe83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-09 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This a research on pedagogical experiences about Environmental Education carried out in selected schools of the municipal education net of the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte State. This study occurs in a where social and environmental problems reach great dimensions and provoke discussions all over the planet. Inside this social context where education is taken as a form intervention in the world, several methodological and theoretical approaches emerge indicating Environmental Education tendencies as different ways to face challenges due to environmental crisis. The maim question pursued by the research is to inquiry how schools have developed their Environmental Education experiences. Pedagogical experiences on Environmental Education are analyzed in selected schools having as theoretical framework ideas for social change, by human action accordingly to Hanna Arendt‟s thought, and Marx‟s idea of praxis, (1989). The objective is to identify, to know and to map the pedagogical experiences on Environmental Education carried out in selected schools of the municipality teaching net having sociological cartography as a methodological strategy for analyzing empirical data. The results of the research pointed out existing reductionist and behaviorist-pedagogical perspectives as for as Environmental Education is concerned as well as environmental understanding, showing a predominance of the conservative Environmental Education tendency inside schools / Trata-se de uma pesquisa sobre experi?ncias pedag?gicas em Educa??o Ambiental desenvolvidas em escolas selecionadas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Natal, Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Realiza-se no momento em que os problemas socioambientais tomam propor??es planet?rias ao mesmo tempo em que desencadeiam discuss?es de amplitude global. No ?mbito desse contexto social atual no qual a educa??o constitui-se como uma forma de interven??o no mundo, diversas formula??es te?rico-metodol?gicas remetem-se ? consolida??o de tend?ncias em Educa??o Ambiental como meio de enfrentamento dos desafios postos pela crise ambiental. A investiga??o direciona-se pela quest?o: como est?o sendo desenvolvidas as experi?ncias pedag?gicas em Educa??o Ambiental nas escolas? Analisa-se experi?ncias pedag?gicas em Educa??o Ambiental desenvolvidas nas escolas selecionadas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Natal, tendo como teorias para an?lise as id?ias de transforma??o social, pela a??o humana de Arendt (1995) e a pr?xis em Marx (1989). Objetiva-se identificar, conhecer e cartografar as experi?ncias pedag?gicas em Educa??o Ambiental desenvolvidas nas escolas selecionadas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Natal, tendo, como estrat?gia metodol?gica, para an?lise dos dados emp?ricos, a cartografia sociol?gica. Os resultados da pesquisa apontaram para a exist?ncia de perspectivas pedag?gicas reducionistas e comportamentalistas no que concerne a compreens?o do meio ambiente e da Educa??o Ambiental, apontando para o predom?nio da Educa??o Ambiental conservadora no interior da escola