Common National Curriculum Base:

Teaching and Learning of Environmental Education in the field of Professional and Technological Education (EPT)

Abstract

This study aims to put forward some considerations on the Common National Curriculum Base (CNCB) and the Teaching and Learning of Environmental Education (EE) in the field of Professional and Technological Education (PTE). It is a documental study, which involves the analysis of the existing policy texts that regulate EE and the insertion of it in the CNCB, with emphasis on technical and technological education. The CNCB, in terms of High School education, gives autonomy to teaching networks and schools. Young people may choose technical-professional training, within the regular academic workload. It was observed that, in the CNCB, EE is considered an "integrating theme", prevailing in it the division into subjects, with possible reinsertion conditioned to the autonomy of schools. In this context, the CNCB has limitations that should be recognized considering it as a public policy that aims to attend to the interests of all citizens. In technical and technological education there have been efforts to integrate environmental education in many activities and the opportunity to acquire knowledge, however, the great challenge is to develop environmental education and at the same time integrate it with as many subjects as possible, taking into account that the current educational system still reproduces the traditional teaching methodology. For that, thinking about changing this reality, EE should be seen as a way of contribution, so that trained technicians would be, besides good professionals, critical citizens, and aware of their roles.