A PEDAGOGIA DE PROJETOS NA COMPREENSÃO DAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS DE ACIDENTES COM BARRAGENS

The dam’s rupture occurred in Brazil in previous years caused irreparable environmental impacts that cannot undergo unnoticed. In this context, it become important to discuss in the school the socio environmental consequences caused by those accidents. In this paper it is presented a pedagogical practice involving the project’s pedagogy that had as an objective explore its contributions in the comprehension of those consequences. 75 students from the High School integrated to the Buildings Technical School participated in this practice. The students were divided into groups and developed their projects having as reference the steps presented by Nogueira (2008). The evaluation process was procedural and diagnostical, that is, passed through all the project’s steps. The results of this evaluation pointed that the project’s pedagogy contributes not only to the comprehension of the social and environmental impacts of the accidents involving dams, but also developed autonomy and knowledges to address this theme.