The construction of agroecological education in the municipality of Barreiros-PE

Abstract

Our research used the review of scientific literature, combined with the focus group techniques
and the application and analysis of semistructured questionnaires in the partner communities.
Analyzing the group that we interviewed we can point the following profile: it is a group of people
that in their great majority are black or brown; With an average of 37 years; Where more
than half of the group never studied or did not complete elementary school; With just under
half claiming to be farmers. As for their beliefs, little more than half declared themselves Protestants;
Where the average income of the interviewees is R $ 570.05 (five hundred and seventy
reais and five cents). In a provisional analysis of the data collected, we perceive that the
subject who lives the harsh reality of the rural communities of Barreiros is a subject in dispute
... If on the one hand he seems to have absorbed the agroecological discourse, on the other
he lives with less than a minimum wage per Month and also uses “solutions” from the chemical
industry to make their day-to-day work possible. When we observe the knowledge that is
validated in the daily life of these subjects, we perceive a flagrant lack of school and school
knowledge in this reality. What seems to have prevailed is the ancestral knowledge, passed by
familiar and repeated in the daily deal. An approximation of scientific knowledge with ancestral
knowledge seems to be the most adequate way for the formation of an agroecological subject.