Percepção de alunos do ensino fundamental da Escola Agrotécnica Dep. Evaldo Gonçalves de Queiroz no Município de Sumé – PB sobre agroecologia e educação ambiental.

Abstract

Education is an important tool for raising our concerns. It is considered as a transformation agent for sustainable development. With this in mind, the present work presents the results that were extracted from questionnaires applied to the students of the 9th year '' A '' of the Municipal Agrotechnical School Deputy Evaldo Gonçalves de Queiroz of the municipality of Sumé-PB in November 2018, as main focus to evaluate the perception of the same about the subjects questioned. Initially, the concepts of sustainability, agroecology, agroecological practices, natural inputs and pesticides were presented to analyze the results obtained with the application of the questionnaires. This is a descriptive and exploratory work, whose main objective is to make children and young people aware of the importance of environmental education, sustainability and agroecology, bringing as a reference day-to-day practices. It is believed that with this work it becomes possible to raise awareness of not only children, but also the population in general.