O técnico agrícola e a educação ambiental: diálogos e reflexões em busca da problematização e superação de situações- limites

Abstract

The changes and socio-environmental problems caused to the environment, the result of human activities degrading the nature and concerned with maintaining the functioning of capitalism as a model system, deserves a reflection on society. It is known that the pursuit of sustainable development is a function of the whole social being, however we found that some professions, by his most direct contact to the environment, urgently need to discuss openly about the issue. There is, from this discussion and between professions linked to the practice in the field, the opportunity to work in environmental education. This study sought to know the reality of an environment and the school community through a course of vocational and technical education, from concerns about the way that the mainstreaming of environmental education comes in two ongoing curricula of Technical Agriculture. The research was conducted at the technical school statewide Rondonopolis/MT, search by subject with the three existing classes of the course and their teachers. The questions guiding the study concerned: 1) articulation between environmental education and scientific knowledge in the curriculum of the course in question 2) environmental diagnosis of perception of teachers and students of technical course in Agriculture, and 3) intervention on course from an extension activity designed to broaden students ' environmental awareness. This is a qualitative research study of the type of case, with the use of different methodological tools, such as document analysis to investigate the pedagogical and course plans of the institution; semi-structured interview for teachers to identify their conceptions of environment and environmental education; questionnaires and mental maps to assess the environmental awareness of students. From the analysis of these three elements, was proposed an extension activity, 20 hours, using photos of the local environment, related to agriculture, to the problematic situations and in order to discuss the role of agricultural technical front to environmental education Agribusiness and the influence on local society. Based on the dialog and questioning and forming the subject of eco-critical awareness, the theoretical frameworks used were the ideas of educator Paulo Freire and the principles of Critical Environmental Education. For the preliminary survey of local conditions, it is noted that, like their teachers, the students of Technical Agriculture have restricted vision of environmental education, only for nature conservation. Also note the strong influence of the banking concept of education among students and teachers. As a result of the activity proposed extension, there is the strong potential of photographs as a material event for the questioning, however, the activity was not successful the change in naive transitive consciousness of students to the role of environmental educators in their future profession and for relations between the impacts caused by the Agribusiness sector on the environment and society.