A sustentabilidade nas instituições de ensino superior : visões e práticas de sustentabilidade ambiental nos cursos de engenharia civil em duas universidades do estado de Sergipe

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Leonardo Nunes
• Orientador(a): Carvalho, Isabel Cristina de Moura
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: SUSTENTABILIDADE; ENGENHEIROS - FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL; UNIVERSIDADES; EDUCAÇÃO
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7019

This thesis raises and examines views and practices of environmental sustainability in the university space, from Civil Engineering course of two universities in the State of Sergipe. The choice of the Civil Engineering course stems from the fact that, in the State of Sergipe, there is a strong expansion and modernisation of the civil construction, which transforms the environment and ends up causing environmental impacts, mainly through the generation of waste. The work identifies and analyses expressions of environmental sustainability included in institutional documents, especially in the PDI (Institucional Development Plan) and the PPC (Teaching Plan of the Course) of the courses of Civil Engineering of the two IES (Institution of Higher Education) sergipanas; it presents concepts that teachers and graduating students of the Civil Engineering course of the two IES have about environmental sustainability; it identifies and analyzes practices of environmental sustainability undertaken in the courses of Civil Engineering of the two IES, especially those led by teachers of the environmentally-oriented disciplines; and it considers the views of graduating students in Civil Engineering about the impacts of the sustainability topic in the training and in the professional practice. The investigative path included literature review, desk research and conducting semi-structured interviews with environmental managers of the IES, managers of the courses, teachers and students. The main results of the survey indicate that the training based on environmental sustainability, considering its multiple and complex aspects, has limited reach. Except for some isolated efforts, the environmental sustainability in the university space is not yet priority, and configures itself in essence as a mere enunciation of statements of a political nature.