Environmental Education in teacher training:

an instrument for promoting sustainable awareness in the Pedagogy Course

Abstract

This work brings reflections on the relationship between Environmental Education and teacher training, in the context of a Pedagogy Degree Course, as a path towards building sustainable awareness. Thus, its main objective was to contribute to expanding understanding of how Environmental Education can enhance teacher training, from a perspective of developing sustainable awareness, specifically, in the Degree Course in Pedagogy, at Campus - IV of UFPB. Based on this scenario, a Pedagogical (diagnostic) Workshop was organized and held, called “Training for the development of a sustainable culture”, with eight students from the aforementioned Degree in Pedagogy Course as participants. As the main training process, we work based on the dynamics of the “Flower of Sustainability” (Borba, 2018), with the intention of promoting in students a look at environmental problems/solutions related to the theme of sustainability in the context of their localities, that is, based on elements of the environment (natural, social, cultural, economic) that surround them. Thus, as the main result of this study, it was understood that Environmental Education can be an important instrument with regard to teacher training that enables the development of critical, reflective and sensitive thoughts in the face of urgent environmental issues.