A Agroecologia como tema transversal na formação do técnico agrícola

Abstract

Agricultural Education acts in the formation of professionals who can interfere in the productive chains in order to turn possible the occurrence of positive or negative impacts in environment. In such context, face to the growing environment degradation, educators are defied to propose pedagogic actions which aim the formation of professionals compromised with environment questions. The complexity of man-nature relationship motivated researching in the extent of Urutai Federal Center of Technological Education the way it occurs the application of concepts linked to Agroecology in such teaching modality, aiming the construction of a model which privileges the integral formation of a citizen. In order to reach this aim, it is necessary to breakup with the mechanical world vision where learning happens in an unidirectional and fragmented way, and pedagogic actions are based on inter-transdisciplinary attitudes the inter-transdisciplinary actions, contextualized ways and tranversality, as mediators to the Agroecologic knowledge, are the theoretic referential to this research. In such perspective, this research was developed with the partnership of teachers, pupils and former students of the institution. As instument for data collection it was used seminaries, workshops, forums, questionaries and interviews with semi-structured rules aiming beyond the comprehension of knowledges of the Agroecology concepts and agroecologic practices on agricultural production, also the possible contributions of this science of the citizen integral formation.