Environmental education and young people in reference schools in the pernambucano backwoods: elements to dimension the educational practice

As an alternative to the socio-environmental crisis currently faced, Silva (2012) proposes a change of position guided by a critical educational action. This is because, after Rio 92, there was a great incentive for the brazilian State to disseminate environmental education in the school environment. However, Loureiro and Casio (2007) verified a biological and decontextualized tendency of this practice, implying serious problems in the reflection of issues that affect nature and society. Within this context, we aim to present how the socioenvironmental perception of young students can reveal the place of environmental education in high school of the town of Araripina and Salgueiro, located in the backwoods of Pernambuco. It is also part of this effort, to discuss how aspects of the students' environmental perception can subsidize the study of the theme and dimension the educational practice with these young people. For this, data was collected through a Google Docs questionnaire, with mixed questions, to a sample of 300 students. The results point out specific advances and the permanence of historical problems, already identified by specialized literature on the subject.