SCIENCE AND ART: PATHWAYS TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Science Education; Visual Arts Language; Environmental Culture; Environmental Education.
Studies on environmental issues are extensive, reflecting the need to find ways to avoid the normalization of human tensions in relation to the environment in which we live. Recognizing this, we propose approaching this theme through the language of visual arts, providing opportunities and broadening perspectives and meanings. In this context, this study proposes the use of visual arts language in science classes as a strategy to expand the discussion on environmental culture in the early years of elementary school. Thus, the research aimed to evaluate the potential of this approach in promoting reflections on environmental issues. In the theoretical-methodological approach, we started with exploratory research, using bibliographic and content analysis procedures, with a qualitative approach based on the studies of Bardin, Minayo, and Flick, grounded in the socio-interactionist field of Vygotsky's theory and teaching assumptions from a Freirean perspective. The educational product of this study consists of the development of a teaching guide, with the aim of expanding discussions on environmental culture and the language of visual arts. This material was organized based on the development of a didactic sequence grounded in the Three Pedagogical Moments. The analysis of the data, derived from the drawings, messages, paintings, and research form, was carried out using a qualitative approach. Thus, the results showed a potential involvement of the participants in the elaboration of more critical and sensitive messages regarding environmental issues, with greater autonomy in the elaboration of discourses on a verbal and pictorial level.