Banca de DEFESA: ALEXANDRA CAVALCANTE DE FARIAS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : ALEXANDRA CAVALCANTE DE FARIAS
DATA : 09/06/2017
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: mini-auditório do PPgAU
TÍTULO:

Children's eyes: how children from two Natal’s schools perceive global climate change

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Global climate change, children, environmental perception, multi-methods

PÁGINAS: 133
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

Global Climate Change (GCC), an environmental phenomenon that has become popular
over the years, is generally disclosed and discussed as Global Warming (GW), a term that
restricts the problem to an increase in temperature. Besides to being just an increase in
global temperature, GCC now reaches the public policies sphere, causing interference in the
lives of human beings and mobilizing various sectors in search for a change of behavior,
since humanity plays a crucial role rather significant degradation and preserving the
environment. It is important to point out that in the case of GCC there is a temporal
detachment from the current moment to the most alarming consequences of the
phenomenon, as well as uncertainty about the effectiveness of mitigation actions, which
have their necessarily present long-term answers. It is therefore of utmost importance,
consideration of the future, to think not only in behavior changes reflecting today, but in
decades and centuries later. Taking into account that today's children will experience the
most serious consequences of the problem sometime in the future, the study aimed to
investigate how 46 children aged 7 to 10 years old from two private schools from Natal
perceive GCC and think about mitigation actions for the phenomenon. The study adopted a
multi-methodological perspective with the participating children, involving combined
techniques of semi-structured interview, drawing and focus group, in order to provide a
ludic approach appropriate to this audience. The analysis of the data integrated the results
of the three techniques, whose content allowed the creation of thematic axes, related to the
theoretical references of the person-environment literature. The thematic axes thus
obtained were: local-global, cause-consequence, impact on human life – on ecosystems,
mitigation - adaptation and the category change of season. The results showed that the
participating children found it difficult to understand a phenomenon so complex in its
entirety. However, they were able to express themselves about the problem, especially if the
subjects had been previously treated in the school context. This finding, together with the
commitment expressed by children with mitigation measures, provides important subsidies
for the planning of environmental education projects for this public.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo ao Programa - 1298984 - CLARA MARIA MELO DOS SANTOS
Externo à Instituição - ISOLDA ARAUJO GUNTHER - UnB
Presidente - 347107 - JOSE DE QUEIROZ PINHEIRO
Externo ao Programa - 2374871 - ZORAIDE SOUZA PESSOA