ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN BRAZILIAN SCHOOLS: A SCIENTIOMETRIC ANALYSIS FROM LAW N° 9,795/1999
Environmental Education. Scientometrics. Quali-quantitative research. Schools.
The current environmental situation is worrying, not only because of the lack of sensitivity and environmental awareness of certain people, but also because of respect for life. Therefore, environmental education in daily school life plays an important role in changing human behavior, since environmental problems arise due to the way of life that humanity has been adopting, where people's way of survival has caused imbalance to natural resources of planet Earth. And, we know that environmental education needs to be addressed as a cross-cutting theme by teachers at all levels of education, and thus, contribute significantly to building awareness of students. The present work entitled: Environmental Education in Brazilian Schools: a Scientometric Analysis from Law No. 9,795/1999, has as main objective to carry out a scientometric analysis of scientific productions focused on environmental education practices in the Brazilian school environment, since it is a requirement of article 225, § 1st item VI, of the current Brazilian Magna Carta, and in the form of law 9795/99, which directs the National Policy on Environmental Education. We base the methodology (Approach and Procedure) on scientific production, number of publications per state, publication per year, number of articles per funding agency, articles per journal and the most cited works, through scientometrics by the platform indexed in the collection's database main of the Web of science (WoS), 71 productions focused on the research object were found and sorted. After the analysis, discussion and results, we concluded that, in addition to the scarcity of scientific production focused on environmental education in schools, of financial incentives from the government and which have been accentuated in the last three years, we understand that the promotion of research is extremely important to build essential values for a healthy quality of life and its sustainability.