Continuing teacher education with a view to education for sustainable development: challenges of integration between mathematics and science

Abstract

Environmental education has been discussed worldwide throughout society, therefore an increase in actions that promote environmental awareness is essential and the need for the formation of critical, collective and sustainable thinking is emerging. Based on municipal, state and federal laws, the National Curricular Parameters and the National Common Curricular Base report that good academic performance would be of no use apart from the perception of the impact of individual and collective human actions on the environment. However, society has been facing challenges in the continued training of teachers, and developing tools that support the work of these professionals, including those in the Science area, through interdisciplinarity in the initial years, becomes essential. This article reinforces the need to provide such programs, which aim to develop methodological practices that seek lesson plans focused on environmental themes. The research was based on the challenges that teachers face when they propose to develop environments in their classrooms that are favorable to promoting social contexts. In addition to investigating what characteristics are necessary for the development of activities that support collaborative work, allowing the teacher to develop a role as a mediator and not just a transmitter of knowledge.