Sea Atelier: An Environmental Education Program

Seashore inhabitants do not know the environment they live nowadays, ignoring surrounding natural and cultural phenomenon, mainly their limitations knowledge. Technical and scientific formal education using materials ignoring integration between human and his environment does not solve sensibility process to behavior changing relating to sustainability of the ecosystems where he lives in. This time formal education is against human free expression decreasing creative potential and does not search an integration with the environment. Environmental education happens due to educative rules and actions in order to acquire knowledge, attitudes and values which recognize the conservative ideology exposure (Bólos, 1992). As well artistic expression needs seems to be as biological, universal and durable, as feeding necessities (Cavalcanti, 1981). The "Sea atelier - program to environment education", has with objective, to provide knowledge and sea coast valuation, through different integrated activities supporting fundamental, medium schools as well as local special education or other distinct groups. The development of the programe have succession of 4 stages: Contacting the Environment, Audiovisual Information, Contact Aquarium and Interpretation Atelier. The Sea atelier allows that all ages and social classes are contemplated and there are cases that elderly people showed artistic gifts that they did not know because of lack of opportunity. The Sea atelier fundaments (living, feelings and creation) revels grate didactic-pedagogy to environment education.