A visão dos alunos de uma escola do município de Nova Floresta sobre o sistema Mandalla.

Abstract

The Mandalla’s Project consists of a model vegetable garden based on permaculture principles. The beds of this garden are built around the circular reservoir. This model of vegetable garden has been released in the region through Curimataú Mandalla Agency, a civil organization that aims to stimulate food production with sustainability and low cost. The Mandalla can also be an educational tool, since it is constructed in schools in the region in partnership with Mandalla Agency. Students have the opportunity to build knowledge by construction of gardens Mandalla. The objective of this work was to understand how children in a class of the 5th year of Municipal Elementary School Senador Rui Carneiro in Nova Floresta-PB experienced and what they learned during their participation in the construction of the vegetable gardens Mandalla. This work comprises a qualitative case study. After the workshops to build vegetable gardens were performed conversations, interviews and drawings with the children in a class of the 5th year, as well as interviews with other representatives of the school community. The results achieved: change in eating habits of students, experiences in group work, better relationships with plants and better knowledge about some aspects of plant physiology. Mandalla’s Project achieved its goal as a proposal for dissemination of agroecology techniques, however, we identified through this research potential to be explored in science education in the early grades.