Banca de DEFESA: MAÍSA BARBOSA LAUTON

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : MAÍSA BARBOSA LAUTON
DATA : 22/02/2022
HORA: 13:30
LOCAL: sala de vídeo conferência
TÍTULO:

Interpretive Ecological Trail: From environmental education in the Amazon to accessibility for people with disabilities

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Conservation, Social Inclusion, PcDs

PÁGINAS: 79
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Biológicas
ÁREA: Botânica
SUBÁREA: Botânica Aplicada
RESUMO:

The Amazon biome has a significant biological and socio-environmental value for the world, harboring a great diversity of species of flora, fauna and traditional knowledge of local communities. of the preservation and conservation of the environment. Entering Environmental Education in this scenario, awareness, solidarity, equality and respect for human rights must be stimulated, using democratic strategies and interaction between cultures. The problem of the lack of accessibility in ecological trails for all people, including those with disabilities (PwD), motivated us to formulate the present work, which aimed to build an interpretive ecological trail in a conservation area in the South of the Amazon, as instrument of direct contact with nature, ensuring accessibility even for people with disabilities, whether physical, mental, intellectual or sensory. The trail was opened in an area of 500 hectares of native Amazon forest, located in the experimental area of the Executive Commission of the Cacaueira Crop Plan (CEPLAC) in the municipality of Alta Floresta, in the south of the Mato Grosso Amazon. The trail followed the ICMBio trail planning and fundamentals, classifying it as “Class 5 trail (high intervention), with adaptations along the way, aiming at accessibility and social inclusion, in addition to moments of interpretation on the trail, with the sharpening of the five senses. For data collection, we used questionnaires as a research instrument. We carried out 11 visits, serving 107 volunteers, 81 people without disabilities (76%) and 26 people with disabilities (PwDs) (24%), which cover: Visual (blind and low vision); Auditory (deaf); Physical (wheelchair user and low mobility); Intellectual and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Bringing the focus to the main questions, in the questionnaires applied before the visit, when asked if they knew the forest in our region, 28% said they knew it reasonably, 23% said they knew it well and 24% knew it very well. And, about 40% of the visitors said they had reasonable knowledge about the plants and animals of the region and 28% said they had a good knowledge about the fauna and flora. And for the questionnaires applied after the visit, about 68% of the volunteers said that the connection with nature through the trail was very good and that it served as an efficient tool and regarding their experience about accessibility and inclusion when walking on the trail, 13% of the 26 people with disabilities (PwDs) said that the experience was good. We found acceptable visitor approval by analyzing the questions asked to each of them. Therefore, the construction of the trail proved to be an efficient instrument of direct contact with nature, bringing the focus of knowledge of the Amazon forest, in addition to bringing to light the opinion of PwDs who, for a long time, were excluded from experiences inside a forest. . Therefore, we believe that our work served as a new educational practice under a pedagogical bias of inclusion and accessibility, serving as a basis for future studies with trails of this model, this being a pioneering study in the region.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 96420004 - IVONE VIEIRA DA SILVA
Interno - 253817001 - JULIANA GARLET
Externo à Instituição - LUCAS EDUARDO ARAÚJO SILVA - UFPA