The current environmental situation is worrying, not only for lack of sensitivity and
environmental awareness of certain people, but also for respect for life. Therefore,
environmental education in daily school life plays an important role in changing human
behavior, since environmental problems arise due to the way of life that humanity has been
adopting, where people's way of survival has caused imbalance to natural resources of planet
Earth. And, we know that environmental education needs to be addressed as a cross-cutting
theme by teachers at all levels of education, and thus significantly contribute to building
awareness of students. The present work entitled: Environmental Education in Brazilian
Schools: A Scientometric Analysis from Law No. 9,795/1999, has as main objective to analyze
the scientific productions focused on environmental education practices in the Brazilian school
environment in the web of science database – collection main, since it is a requirement of article
225, § 1st item VI, of the current Brazilian Magna Carta, and in the form of law 9795/99, which
directs the National Policy on Environmental Education. We base the methodology (Approach
and Procedure) on scientific production, number of publications per state and year, number of
articles per funding agency, articles per journal and the most cited works, through
scientometrics by the Capes platform and indexed in the main collection database of the Web
of science (WoS), 71 productions focused on the research object were found and sorted. After
the analyses, discussion and results, we concluded that, in addition to the scarcity of scientific
production focused on environmental education in schools, We noticed the lack of financial
incentives from the government, which have been accentuated in the last three years, we
understand that the promotion of research is extremely important to build essential values for a
healthy quality of life and its sustainability.
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