Programa de educação ambiental no Centro Social Marista: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The Social Center Marista from Dourados – MS (CSM) has in its dependencies a preservation area that has become the refuge of lots of animals and recreational place used to develop educational activities with kids and teenagers attended by the institution. For a long time, this area has been opened for the visitation of external communities. However, the bad cares of the communities with the animals and the place itself have led to its closure. Even knowing that the closure of the area for visitation was a necessary action for its preservation, aware of the potential of the area for educational programs, in 2013, the team of educators of CSM made a work group with the purpose of determining the guiding assumptions of a Environmental Education (EA) program. For that, planning activities that would reconcile the internal public service with the visitor’s needs and the conservation of the natural area would be necessary. This phenomenological study is about the CSM. The study, through in loco observation and literature review, aimed to know the CSM, the problems related to the closure of the recreational area to the general public of the institution, and the proposal of the institutional environmental education program. As a contribution, the FOFA matrix technique was used, which made it possible to highlight the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and internal and external threats of the institution, and from the raised data, suggest actions to the proposed environmental education program.