Educação científica e ambiental através de diálogos e práticas no Museu de História Natural da Universidade Federal de Lavras

Abstract

This paper aims to make a study of the practices and activities that sought closer dialogical aspects of Scientific and Environmental Education at the Natural History Museum (MHN) of the University Federal of Lavras (UFLA). With analysis experience reports published in journals or conference proceedings, meetings and national symposia, the intend is to identify the pedagogical present trends in this non-formal education space. The experience reports , analyzed from specific bibliographic references showed that the MHN approached various scientific and environmental issues doing this through pedagogical elements of constructivist tendencies / cognitive , sometimes with historical and cultural elements sometimes with critical - social elements , and do it integrating the process teacher training.