ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS: A CASE STUDY OF THE MUNICIPAL ECOLOGICAL PARK
Serra do Lenheiro, environmental awareness, action research, public policy
awareness.
This research presents a record of practical experiments in action research
research-action in the field of Environmental Education, aiming to raise environmental awareness in the
Municipal Ecological Park of the Serra do Lenheiro, in São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais.
Considering the political and social context of the period in which this research was conducted, the
practical experiments sought ways to interact and inform different groups of people who interact with the
with the Serra do Lenheiro, revealing important considerations about the interaction between people and the
people and the territory studied.
The results and developments of the experiments contributed to the construction of
library of data about the studied territory. In order to be able to share the data
of the data obtained in the research with the population, it was proposed the construction of an interface that
to meet this condition.
Finally, the research presents important considerations about the Serra do Lenheiro in its
different scales and presents a proposal for the dissemination of knowledge and environmental awareness.
awareness.