Horta escolar como prática pedagógica alternativa para o ensino de Ciências Naturais na Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Bandeirantes

Abstract

The present work is the result of action research developed in the school garden space through observation, registration and interaction with students of the fourth and fifth (4th and 5th) years of the Bandeirantes Elementary School, located in the District of Maracajá, municipality of new Repartimento - Para. as support for construction d and one intervention proposal in the teaching of natural sciences in basic education were allocated study elements s earlier as learning and theoretical reflections produced during the stages of the Socio- Educational Research developed in the modality of the pedagogical alternation between Time- Space University and Time-Space Location of the Degree Course in Rural Education of the Federal University of South and Southeast of Pará (UNIFESSPA). The research activities were developed from March to June 2015 and aimed to analyze the experience of the school garden as an alternative pedagogical practice , able to value the sharing of knowledge and collective work, increase the interest of the students through their active participation in the planning and execution of the activities of building a garden, providing its use as a living laboratory capable of promoting interdisciplinarity , as well as The approach of the contents of the discipline of natural sciences in the school context, on the occasion were addressed the following topics: healthy eating, rural education, emancipating education , human development, sustainable development and collective work. In addition to the content, a number of desirable skills and situations were achieved, as the students had the opportunity to contribute to the elaboration, production and execution of a pedagogical practice, previously restricted to teachers, thus ceasing to be passive subjects to enter into activity. in the process of teaching learning. In addition to the field research, bibliographic research was conducted to corroborate the experiences lived in the school garden context. It also sought to develop activities involving the students, educators and the local community, which provided greater learning for the students, as it allowed the interaction of local knowledge with the contents of natural science teaching, allowing educators and students to leave the level of abstraction often experienced in merely expository classes and disconnected from the reality of the field. The garden at Bandeirantes School was able to create spaces of sociability and collective work among the students, educators and community, while allowing the interdisciplinary discussion of the contents proposed by the National Curriculum Parameters (NCP) in dialogue with the local reality, while At the end of the research we found that the school garden activities can be a teaching and learning tool, promoting the teaching of natural sciences in elementary school, enabling or interdisciplinarity, contributing to the construction of knowledge by the local population, thus optimizing access to education. from field to field subjects.