The practice of composting as a transformative environmental education agent at Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais - Ibirité campus
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Environmental education; Composting; Recycling; Sustainability Education.Abstract
Environmental education based on collective practices can result in a relevant process of educating conscious citizens. Proper waste management brings opportunities to involve the many social actors responsible for the generation and, consequently, for waste disposal. Considering organic waste, composting consists of an alternative for recycling that grants the waste's economic value. This work aimed to analyze the effects of the practice of composting organic waste generated at the Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais Campus Ibirité in the process of environmental awareness and in promoting critical environmental education for students. Thereby, taking as a reference to the theoretical premises of Critical Environmental Education, the practice of composting and subsequent assessment of the activity's capacity to generate environmental awareness was carried out. For this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four students: two directly involved in the activity, and the other two that had already contributed but were no longer engaged in it. The results show that the sense of socio-environmental responsibility has been internalized in the students. They have also expressed the importance of sharing with other people the knowledge obtained through the activity. The way students related to waste has also been transformed, as they recognized its added value and the importance of recycling and composting. Thus, it has been concluded that the practice was shown valuable and efficient in promoting transformative learning experiences for students.
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