Sander, Nilo LealMorais, Michele de2024-03-132024-03-132023RAMOS, Mairtes de Fátima. Uma análise da educação ambiental no ensino público: estudo de caso em uma escola estadual de Goiânia. Goiânia (GO), 2023. 117 f. Dissertação (Mestrado Profissional em Desenvolvimento Regional) - Centro Universitário Alves Faria, 2023.https://repositorio.unialfa.com.br/handle/123456789/146Faced with social inequalities, necessary reflections are made that not only understand the teaching and student practice, but also enable criticality in the school space. In this sense, Critical Environmental Education (EAC) presents itself as an educational action based on reflections that can contribute to the construction of citizenship of the subjects, leading them to a constant dialogue between society, environment, culture, politics and economy, proposing alternatives to emerging problems. This research has as its central investigation question: What is the relationship between the development of educational environmental practices in the researched school with the sustainable development of the city of Goiânia? In line with this investigation, the general objective proposed for this study was: to reflect, through a theoretical and historical foundation, the conception of Critical Environmental Education and its relationship between the school and sustainable development, based on a case study in a State Public School of Goiânia. And the specific objectives established were: to analyze the historicity of Environmental Education; discuss the concept of Critical Environmental Education, pointing out its importance in school education in the face of the environmental challenges of the 21st century; list the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the case study and present the results of the research carried out at the school. The theoretical assumptions are based on the dialogue on Environmental Education established in Paulo Freire (1996), Loureiro and Torres (2014), Reigota (2014), among others. The methodology developed was a bibliographic and field research with a case study, with a qualitative approach, through the application of questionnaires through Google Forms, for students of the 3rd year of High School, teachers and management team of Colégio Estadual José Lobo, in Goiânia . The analysis parameters of the questionnaires were based on Bardin's theory of Content Analysis (2022). The results obtained showed that the EE practices carried out in the research locus (State School), for the most part, are not based on the critical conception, which directly impacts the view that the students have on the subject. It was found that most teachers adopt a conservationist EE view, focused on the care and protection of the environment, thus highlighting the need for continuing education for both teachers and managers from a critical perspective, in view of that education is a factor for sustainable development and that educational processes must be improved in order to contribute to the transformation of reality.ptEducação ambientalEscola pública