EDUCATIONAL AUTOECOBIOGRAPHIC MEMORY: a research-teacher training proposal for the re-signification of Environmental Education
Educational Autoecobiographical Memory; Environmental education; Ecological Values; Connection with Nature; Teacher
Training has been pointed out as an important aspect to alleviate the lack of teacher engagement in Environmental Education activities in public schools and the consequent incidence of superficial and discontinuous approaches to the environment theme. In this sense, this research aims to build a research-training device, named "Educational Autoecobiographical Memory", with a view to evaluating its potential in encouraging the human/nature relationship and favoring the feeling of belonging to teachers in the field of Education. Environmental in the school context. The target audience will consist of Basic Education teachers in class management in Early Childhood Education and in the early years of Elementary Education, working in public schools linked to the State Department of Education of the Federal District. The sequential mixed method study will be structured in three phases: in the first, with a quantitative approach, a survey will be applied to Basic Education teachers in the public school system, through an online questionnaire composed of sociodemographic questions and two instruments - scale of Inclusion of Nature in the Self (INS) by Schultz (2002) and Refined Values Questionnaire (PVQ-R) by Schwartz et al. (2012) - in order to verify the participants' perception of connectivity with nature and the level of presence of self-transcendent values. In the second phase, with a qualitative approach, a training process will be carried out with groups of teachers from public schools who work at the indicated levels of education. The intervention will be carried out with the application of the constructed research-training device, in which spaces/times of dialogic reflection will be provided regarding ecological values, connection with nature and Environmental Education, based on the writing and socialization of narratives of educational memories and environmental (environmental autobiographies) of the subjects. The third phase will be dedicated to the application of the instruments referenced in the first phase of the research to the participants of the second, before and after the training process, in order to verify possible changes in the scores that may signal alterations in the perception of inclusion in nature and the activation of self-transcending values. For the quantitative data, multivariate inferential analyzes will be used, while the qualitative data will be verified in the hermeneutic perspective, for a comprehensive-interpretative analysis of the narratives. The research will be based on complex and transdisciplinary thinking when proposing a theoreticalmethodological dialogue between Critical Environmental Education, Human Ecology and Environmental Psychology, mediated by the (auto)biographical approach.