A educação do olhar para as questões socioambientais na formação inicial de professores

Abstract

In order to include socio-environmental issues in the initial training of teachers on Pedagogy degree courses and to discuss the education of the gaze, we used photography as a didactic and awareness-raising tool in this research. Photography acted as a means by which students had the opportunity to ponder, analyze and broaden their view of the urgency of socio-environmental debates in school contexts. To help expand and make these discussions more effective, we introduce an e-book as educational product, which is meant to be a pedagogical tool for teachers in addressing socio-environmental issues to be applied in schools. The participants in this investigation are Pedagogy undergraduate students at a private college located in Benevides, in the state of Pará, Brazil. The present study has a qualitative approach and is based on action research. Data was analyzed using Textual Discourse Analysis (TDA). Its theoretical framework consists of a literature review on socio-environmental issues related to teacher training and the importance of educating the gaze. A questionnaire resulting from the training process was used to compile the research data. The intention of this work is to contribute to initial teacher training focused on educating the gaze towards socio-environmental issues.