A aplicação de boas práticas: uma contribuição para a atualização das competências nos currículos dos cursos técnico em Agropecuária e Agroindústria do IFTM – Campus Uberlândia

Abstract

In this work was studied the contribution of Good Agricultural and Manufacturing Practices in the acquisition of abilities proposed by the curriculum of the Agriculture and Livestock Technical Course and Agroindustry Technical Course of Federal Institute of Triângulo Mineiro- Uberlândia Campus (IFTM-Uberlândia Campus). An interdisciplinary proposal was applied to the production of vegetables destined to the consumption in the sector of feeding and nutrition of the Institution. 20 students from the Agriculture Technical course and 17 from the Agroindustry Technical course from IFTM-Uberlândia Campus. It was used as the object of work for the pedagogical evaluation planting of lettuce, one in the conventional way and another with the application of Good Agricultural Practices. In the evaluation of the pedagogical process, the method of evaluation of individual attitude was used, constructing relative affirmative questions to the main phases of development of the steps that made this work (process and its controls and microbiological analyses). The evaluation tools contained affirmations referring to the concepts and necessary knowledge to understand the good stages that involve the process of the good practical. These were punctuated with a scale ranging from “I disagree very much” to “I agree very much”, with a total of seven points. These were applied in two different stages, being first the representative one of zero condition, which is, without any involvement with the activities of the project and second, after concluding the practical activities. For each plantation, 50 randomly harvested heads of lettuce were selected. The samples of each plantation (conventional and GAP) and each processing (conventional and GMP), after the collection, were transported to the laboratory of Food Microbiological Analyses of the IFTM- Uberlândia Campus, where Total and Fecal Coliforms were analyzed. The diagnostic tests on the knowledge in GAP and GMP presented average above 6 for the four evaluated groups, but there was an increase in the values of notes of the evaluations, after the applied training. However, the results did not present significant statistical differences between the groups, both in the first and in the second moment in relation to the knowledge level on GAP and GMP. This result can e justified, because the study had the limitation to a small sample. In the analysis of images of subjects at different stages of labor was observed cooperation and organization of the group leaders with the creation of better performance of the activities. The present work allowed the academic knowledge to the applied research. It was possible to follow the construction of the knowledge of the students and researcher, which was accomplished by means of the principles that support interdisciplinary practices, who contribute to the formation of citizens critical and participative.