ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Environmental education is the path to establishing new bonds between society and nature and new perspectives on the natural world. It is through this path that we interact with the communities where the project operates and come into contact with local ecological knowledge. At Toninhas do Brasil, environmental education is approached in a critical, constructive and mature manner, always with creativity, sensitivity and ludicity. In addition to raising awareness on the importance of conserving franciscanas and their ecosystems, we seek to promote experiences of contact with nature and, based on this enchantment, elicit a collaborative construction of meaning and knowledge. In our work, we are both students and educators, and we invite everyone to reflect on the changes we can implement in our daily lives and in our communities in favor of a truly sustainable and fair development.
Toninhas do Brasil works together with teaching institutions, and in an integrated manner with municipal education departments, to bring our way of doing environmental education to formal learning. Since its inception, the project has been an ally of educators, offering didactic material, training and experiences that complement the skills and knowledge built during classes.
Our team conducts lectures, interactive exhibitions and activities both in and out of the classroom, providing dynamic, participatory and organic learning experiences. We also offer teaching support for planning activities aimed at all stages of basic and higher education, working with educators and according to their needs.
In addition, through our environmental education course, we help teachers bring the principles of ocean literacy to their students. In the cities of São Francisco do Sul, Caraguatatuba, Ubatuba and Laguna, educators partnering with the project will have the opportunity to implement the didactic material from “the Franciscana Treasure Chest” in their classrooms. Produced in a Montessorian and Waldorfian perspective, this material, aimed at early childhood education and the early years of elementary school, proposes an imaginative way of integrating environmental education into curriculum components, and of educating for conservation.
Children from CMEIP Toninhas, in São Francisco do Sul (SC) during an environmental education activity.
The project also participates in face-to-face and online events, being present in the communities where it operates. Through the “Tem Toninha Aqui” (“Franciscanas Are Here”) events, we present the species and its ecosystems on beaches in Santa Catarina, Paraná and São Paulo. On October 1st, we celebrate the International Franciscana Day, in which online and face-to-face actions are carried out, in conjunction with partners from all over Brazil.
In exhibitions and lectures, we bring elements of coastal and marine biodiversity within the reach of people’s hands, teaching and learning with those who are part of these ecosystems. The exhibitions have a rich support material, with real taxidermied animals, skeletons, life-size models, photos and explanatory panels, in addition to games and recreational activities. The exhibitions are easy to transport and adaptable to the spaces available.
Do you want to know when Toninhas do Brasil will be in your city? Get in touch with us and find out.
You can also get to know and use our didactic material, available for free at the Franciscana Library.
Univille stand at the Chef’s event on the beach in November 2019.
See too:
- Research
- Environmental Education
- Strategic Comunication
- The Babitonga Bay Franciscanas
