ABORDAGENS DA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL E MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS NO ENSINO FORMAL EM MOÇAMBIQUE

Abstract

Environmental education is a continuous and permanent process of training a population that is aware of environmental problems, a population that seeks to solve present environmental problems and that seeks to prevent future environmental problems. This article intends to understand how Environmental Education can help in the perception of climate change in Mozambique. The main contents of environmental education selected in formal education and the methodological approaches of its application were analyzed in order to contribute to the development of environmental awareness in students and the consequent improvement of environmental quality towards sustainable development. For its production, documentary and bibliographic research was used, through reading, analysis and selection of various contents that are part of it. After analyzing the teaching programs, it was found that environmental education contents are evident, dealing with matters on the elements of the environment and ways of preserving the environment, in the subjects of Portuguese, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences in primary and secondary education in disciplines of Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture, and are methodological strategies chosen for the treatment of contents on environmental education, illustration, observation, interpretation, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of physical-natural phenomena, joint reflection, discussion in groups and study visits, however, there is no clarity in the inclusion of content on climate change in teaching programs. The convergence between the various fields of approach is important, such as the use of the relationship between environmental education and climate change to form a resilient society to the impacts of climate change.