Práticas produtivas para a convivência com o semiárido na escola do assentamento Zé Marcolino.

Abstract

This work originates from a theoretical-practical motivation resulting from the teaching work developed at a Field School, located in the settlement Zé Marcolino, Rural Community Lajinha-Prata-Paraíba, and from theoretical reflections developed in the living with the Semiarid Specialization Course of Science and Mathematics Teaching from UFCG Semiarid Sustainable Development Center. The research problem was raised by the educational practice developed in the School with subjects, activities and actions related to technologies of living with semiarid, in relation to cultivation, creation, extractivism and processing of products. The central question of the research was: how do these practices contribute to students and their families having another look about living with semiarid? It had as general objective: understand which the perception of students, families and settlers is, about the productive practices developed by the School. The qualitative approach in a participatory research perspective, by starting from the concrete reality lived by the researcher, which is placed in an individual dimension (its teaching practice), but also collective (as community) in this process, and in seeking to bring real experiences, with the interpretations and experiences lived and thought by the people with whom it interacts in the school and in the community. The theoretical reference of the Coexistence with the Semiarid and of the Field Education, was possible by: Caldart (2002; 2009); Silva (2016; 2010); Finally, the results show that the school has a fundamental role in raising awareness of these productive practices, in order to stimulate the locality development, awakened in the students, leadership and stimulate the search for better living conditions and the struggle for their rights.