Agroecology in rural schools in the microregion of Altamira, Pará

Abstract

The objective is to develop educational actions in the rural schools aiming at the dialogue of knowledge about Agroecology and environmental problematic of the microregion of Altamira, Pará, involving the school and community through practical, experimental and reflexive actions, facing the difficulties didactic-pedagogical methods for the elaboration of differentiated materials and methodologies, focusing on Agroecology. The interested schools are from the municipality of Brasil Novo and offer from the 1st year fundamental to high school, in multi-series classes. In one of the schools the perspective discussed with management and teachers was the subject solos, and in the other, there are two possibilities around the environmental problematic: recycling and implementation of vegetable garden and school garden. In both schools, action planning is ongoing. Farmers were visited with valuable knowledge about plants and ecological processes to articulate possible participation in the actions.