Educação ambiental: atitudes, crenças e preocupações ambientais de alunos do ensino médio do Brasil, Espanha e Portugal

Abstract

Seeking a comparison of the attitudes, beliefs and environmental concerns in a group of 405 high school students enrolled in private educational institutions and public from São Paulo and Diadema (Brazil), Porto (Portugal) and Ibiza (Spain), was developed a survey in the form of a survey. We interviewed 405 students of the last cycle of basic education. This work intends to contribute to analyze how they think and act the students surveyed. Thus, it was considered important to assess "what are the beliefs and environmental concerns of young high school students and how this impacts on their attitudes towards the environment in which they live? The concerns, beliefs and environmental attitudes are similar between groups of students in Brazil, Spain and Portugal? The school plays a key role in the formation and environmental awareness of these young people? The answer to these questions will achieve the following objectives: a) to identify students' attitudes to issues related to the environment; b) to characterize and differentiate the groups of students' behavior in Brazil, Spain and Portugal; c) verify the role of schools in the three groups of students, construction and training of individuals with social and environmental responsibilities. It can be concluded that this work achieved its objectives to raise the environmental awareness of graduating students of basic education in the countries surveyed by a research instrument. This research allowed for comparisons among the three national samples and verify, in general, strong concordance in relation to beliefs, attitudes and environmental concerns between Brazilian and Portuguese, and many differences of these two groups in relation to the Spanish group these same constructs. The results collected in this study revealed different views among the Portuguese-speaking students (Brazilian and Portuguese) and Hispanics (Spanish) in the dimensions of the environmental attitude, environmental beliefs, education in schools and influence of education. The cultural dimension is an important factor for understanding the results of the survey, as shown by many studies mentioned in the theoretical framework.