GEOCONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT GEOPARK ARARIPE (CEARÁ) THROUGH DIDACTIC WORKSHOPS AND FIELD CLASSES

Abstract

Environmental Education can be developed from the perspective of the diversity of experiences, and commitments, which have in common the transformation of society through education. In this process of environmental awareness, it is developed in the school space, or outside it, which is contemplated as determined entities, as in geoparks, it proves to be decisive for the understanding of the individuals or environments that surround them. Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze and work on non-school environmental education as a strategy in the process of geoconservation of geosites in the Araripe Geopark. Among the results, we can see that the geopark, mainly through the interpretation and environmental education centers, develop activities such as workshops for replicas of fossils, bio-jewels, puppet theater and cloth book, in addition to ecological trail and holiday camp. Many are extraordinarily important actions for regional geoconservation, as they are not public actions in important actions still carried out for the geopark conservation area