On the concept of climate change and implications. Construction from the classroom

Abstract

This research underlies the work with young people from a foundation, through debates and environmental education workshops on climate change, global warming and the relationship of the human species with the environmental problems that impact its environment. Multiple debates will take place on categories such as: the concept of climate change, man's relationship with climate change and global warming. The objective of the research was to document the perceptions that young people have about the concept of climate change and the implications for the environment. The study used the focus group methodology, with 26 participants where the dialogue of knowledge about climate change was compiled within the foundation's classroom. The qualitative paradigm of a narrative type including the analysis from the complexity where the participants manage to develop triggering responses. The findings, that young people have previous concepts, given by the orality of generations that have preceded the participants, for them, climate change has been altered by the condition of man in the effort to generate more efficient economic processes. Global warming is classified as something that can alter ecosystem services, reducing the well-being of the human species. In short, the research was mediated by preconceptions debates, which were materialized and operated in a solid way with the passage of the activities, it is recognized that the dialogue with their grandparents allowed to compare the before and after the change that the environment has suffered.