A horta escolar como recurso didático para contextualização da educação no semiárido: vivência pedagógica na Escola do Campo Pio X - Sumé.

Abstract

This research was conducted linked to the Specialization Course in Contextualized Education for Living with the Semi-arid of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Semi-arid, at the Federal University of Campina Grande. The object of the action research was the School Garden as a didactic resource for contextualizing education and healthy eating. The project was developed in the Field School UMEIF José Bonifácio Barbosa de Andrade, located in Pio X, municipality of Sumé- Paraíba. Our general objective was to develop with the children and teachers activities in the school garden as a didactic resource that allowed reflection on the contextualization of education and healthy eating. As our intentionality was to develop an intervience with the school community we opted for Action Research as a theoretical and methodological approach to research, in which researchers and participants representing the situation or the problem are involved in a cooperative or participatory way. The Cycle of Action Research was adopted as a research procedure in its stages: diagnosis, planning, intervention, discussion and systematization, and evaluation. For the evaluation we used a questionnaire with the students and a conversation circle with the teachers who, during the investigation, were directly involved with the implementation of the School Garden. The theoretical references that subsidized the study were Convivência com o Semiárido, Agroecology and Environmental education and Organic Horticulture the results showed that the students had the opportunity to learn to plant and grow vegetables from the organic garden, as well as the contribution of the garden to rethink the food culture, With the teachers was the deepening of collective and interdisciplinary work, because the garden enabled a relationship and interaction between knowledge, joint work between teachers from different areas to develop themes, including what relates to living with the semi-arid, healthy eating and Agroecology.