Educação agroecológica: as experiências das comunidades do/no campo

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze the traditional knowledge of rural communities as methodological tools for teaching in the area of natural sciences, with an emphasis on agroecology, based on experiences and accounts of traditional knowledge regarding medicinal plants and wild fruit species existing in the municipality of Tijucas do Sul, Paraná, Brazil. This work was carried out through action research with a qualitative approach, and the data analysis was performed using Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA). This study seeks to understand how Agroecological Education can enhance the debate between the experiences of rural communities and scientific and school experiences in the systematization and valorization of traditional knowledge. To this end, interviews were conducted with people who hold traditional knowledge (healers), residents of rural communities, and seedling producers. These interviews were analyzed and transcribed in order to produce an educational product. The resulting educational product is a methodological guide for teachers with theoretical and methodological bases for the application of activities in municipal schools, as well as the production of children’s literature. The aim of this study was to improve the quality of education, value the culture of rural populations, and record the traditional knowledge expressed by people from the communities of Matulão, Tabatinga, and Campo Alto.