Relações entre agroecologia e educação ambiental: reflexões sobre uma proposta de ensino

Abstract

The present work has as its object the critical environmental educational formation in the formation of teachers, thus, it aims to construct, teach and analyze a pedagogical proposal that takes Agroecology as the content of Critical Environmental Education. As pillars for the construction of the work, we have the articulation with art and Critical Historical Pedagogy and Critical Environmental Education as theoretical references. The investigation was developed considering the assumptions of the qualitative methodology and analyzed the development of a pedagogical activity in a Study Group on Critical Environmental Education, composed of undergraduate and graduate students and a professor. The educational activity took place online, due to the coronavirus pandemic, in 4 meetings of approximately 4 hours each, through conversation circles. For the analysis of the activities developed, we used the Content Analysis Methodology and two scientific articles were constructed that dialogue since both were based on an educational process developed in teacher training: the first aimed to analyze possible contributions of Cândido Portinari's works: “Lavrador de Café” (1934) and “Café” (1935) for this process of training teachers in environmental education. The second article sought to report and analyze an educational proposal that took Agroecology as a content of Critical Environmental Education in teacher training. We conclude that the educational work in dialogue with the art that took food production, especially agroecology, as an axis of environmental education in teacher training showed potential and made possible the advancement and deepening of the participants' understandings about the relationship between society and nature in the capitalist system.