OLIVEIRA, Lorena Macêdo A. N. de; COSTA, Larissa Maria de Menezes    ELALI, Gleice Azambuja. Environmental perception of students about the neighborhood where they live and study. []. , 18, 2, pp.446-465. ISSN 1808-4281.

Brazil's policies in the field of education encourage school-community relathionship as an important part of the educational process, for which we believe is essential to valorise both the physical characteristics of the social environment and the experience of the people who live there. Based on this, we investigate the perception of students about where they live and study, exploring the boundaries of the local and how to place the school in this context. Methodologically they were used diary personal with drawing maps and interviews during walks in the area. There were 23 students (15 women and 7 men) aged between 13 and 17 years enrolled in the 9th grade in a public school Guarapes neighborhood, Natal-RN. The results show their perception of the compartmentalization of space, the predominance of graphic descriptions of the center of the neighborhood and difficulties in recognizing changes set to take place in that urban area.

: school and community; environmental perception; students.

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