Environmental Education for Health – Interdisciplinary Activities between Teaching Sciences and Language Teaching
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Environmental education, health education, Sciences TeachingAbstract
Interdisciplinarity deepens the understanding of the sciences, as well as the teaching and learning processes in formal Environmental Education. The interaction between the areas is pertinent to the development of all fields of scientific and academic knowledge. One of the functions of Education is to prepare the individual for life in society. Society is related to the environment, removing its subsistence through the appropriation of natural resources and energy, degrading the conditions of environmental balance, as a result of the continuous production of consumer goods and energy on a large scale. Such imbalances constitute environmental impacts that are deleterious to ecosystems, including human health. The importance of linking academic knowledge with environmental issues is undeniable. The sustainability of societies depends on the adequate maintenance of the vital conditions of biodiversity and natural ecosystems, as human communities are dependent on their ecological environment. Thus, one of the possible initiatives for Science Education towards sustainability is to correlate environmental and health issues with language teaching. Such actions could increase interdisciplinarity through integration with Environmental Education and Health Education, considering that Health Education, in a broad sense, can be understood as a branch of Environmental Education.
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