A Pedagogia de Projetos: construção de conhecimentos sobre o uso da calagem na produção de mudas de Mulateiro (Calycophyllum spruceanum)

Abstract

Professional education should think in shaping the individual not only as a professional but also as a citizen, ie, a global training. So teaching strategies - learning should be adopted to meet this need for training, and among these strategies is cited pedagogy project. Thus the aim of this research was to monitor the construction of knowledge, using the pedagogy of projects as a methodology for teaching seedling production mulateiro. The research was conducted at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Acre Campus of the Southern Cross, with students of Higher Technology Course in Agroecology. The students were direct participants in the planning, development, completion and evaluation of the project. To collect data about the influence the production of meanings of pedagogy projects in the teaching - learning process, focus groups were used in the research and observations, notes were also performed, as well as reports and excel spreadsheets submitted by students, with subsequent qualitative and quantitative analysis, and the results discussed and presented using tables and graphs. There was active participation of students, predominantly teamwork and motivation for the research, we found a high percentage interaction and engagement of participants with respect to the interference of different doses of lime in the production of seedlings mulateiro. Through the results it is concluded that the teaching - learning through projects pedagogy contributes to the construction of knowledge, thus promoting meaningful learning, since students were able to evolve and build knowledge, however, the learning process is.