Environmental Education in the pandemic context: analysis of its insertion in the Tutored Study Plans (PETS) of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Abstract

The article in question proposes an analysis of Environmental Education in the Tutored Study Plans (PETs) of the State of Minas Gerais during the period of the pandemic caused by Covid-19. In this context, schools needed to suspend classes and use new resources to continue with the teaching-learning process in a non-presential regime, thus emerging PETs. In this way, the present work, of a qualitative and quantitative nature and with a bibliographic/documentary approach, used the PETs of the regular education of the initial years of elementary school (from 1st to 5th year), in the period of 2020 and 2021. With this, analyzes were carried out and reflections on themes related to Environmental Education, aiming to understand the nature of the activities addressed and whether they were in accordance with current educational proposals related to the environment. Thus, it can be noted the insertion of Environmental Education in the plans, in an interdisciplinary way and also showing the concern to awaken in students a critical awareness of environmental issues. However, the real scope and effectiveness of the proposed activities related to this theme, as well as the social gaps caused by the pandemic, are issues that must be addressed in the return of face-to-face teaching.