This study had as a goal to investigate the representations of children in the child education (EI) about the environment together with the environmental education, as a way to understand the relations that the child has about him/herself in the environment having as a main goal the ideas and images that they make about the environment. The research shows a qualitative approach with emphasis on the methodology of social representative theory of Serge Moscovici (1978); Jodelet et al, 2001) associated with the work of environmental perception, based on Del-Rio (1996); Tuan (1980, 1983) To the intervention process, it was used perception strategie, done in a exploratory ride and interpretative of the space in the classroom, and the “Jogo das Evocações”, whose illustrations were inspired in ambient typologies according to Sauvé et al. (2000) and Sato (2004) called as the inductive word environment. All activities were based by the oral expressions and pictorial of the children, and the data were analyzed by a graphical content and speeches contained in the social constructions of environment, in a child interpretation. The subjects of this research were 20 children of six years old, students of infant education of a public school in the Montese district in the city of Belém (PA). In this analysis of data, it became evident the geographical value in the ambient relationships, specially the ones of the scholar and familiar association of the children, expressed by the affectivity, fundamental element in the formation of personal identity and of the inter relations with the environment. According to the callings, the results showed that the children conceived the environment as a first calling problem, as biosphere as a second one and at last the nature. In the representational structure ass the environment as a problem it showed to b the Central Nucleus of social representations, that confirmed by the drawings and child talks, indicate the power of the spread of the media around its conceptions, these based in the necessity of preserving the environment, to guarantee the life of the planet.
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