“If açaí is planted by sabiás or bem-te-vis, it has a higher quality”:

Abstract

The present text aims to share the educational praxis of the relationship between Education and Agroecology experienced in the Specialization in Pedagogical Practices in Rural Education, at the Federal University of Pará, Tocantins-Cametá Campus. It seeks to describe two activities carried out, the knowledge tree and a field class, during which the students reflected on the tree metaphor and its epistemological meaning in the process of fighting and coordination of the movements; rural education and agroecology. In the field class there was an opportunity to experience the materiality of agroecology in a property located in a floodplain territory, along the Tocantins Tiver, at the Guajará de Baixo Community, Cametá-PA municipality. The qualitative approach methodology aims to provide descriptions and analytical reflections of both activities selected in this analysis, which were experienced by a class of 30 students. It goes through discursive intricacies about the homogeneous and disciplinary scientific knowledge, about projects idealized for the Amazon, top-down, and, of course, about the traditional knowledge, that resists to the various forms of colonialism and countryside violence. It is questioned that the school needs to reinvent itself in order to take on its political role of emancipation, so it can meet the interests of its subjects and reaffirm its knowledge as elementary instruments in the alternative construction of development. It is believed that it is possible for a countryside education to be immersed in the countryside, thought by the countryside and to involve the subjects, their territories and territorialities, without straying away from agroecology.