A abordagem da educação ambiental em dois filmes comerciais de animação

Abstract

It is important to discuss about Environmental Education (EE) in schools, as this is a space to learn, understand and promote citizens' awareness and care about the environment in which we live. Thus, a way to promote awareness can be from the use of commercial animation films that address environmental issues, contributing to discussions and reflections on EE. This paper aims to analyze two commercial animation films, seeking to identify which representations of EE, are present in this didactic instrument and check how films can be used in science teaching to address environmental issues. This is a qualitative research in Education, which will be searched in the films: Ice Age 2 and The Lorax: In Search of the Lost Truffle the presence of environmental issues in order to identify the three categories of environmental representation: naturalistic, globalizing and anthropocentric analysis. We know that the influence of technology on human life is increasing, and from this it is important to think of information and communication technologies as a tool in favor of teaching, using them as a pedagogical resource. In this sense, the use of animated commercial films can contribute to the development of different EE strategies in the school environment, stimulating new ways to reach knowledge, awareness, sensitization and the search for behavior change in face of environmental problems.