As Consequências Educativas da Implantação de Sistemas Agroflorestais no Assentamento Nova Aurora-GO e da Relação Escola (IF Goiano - Campus Ceres) – Comunidade

Abstract

This work is the result of analytical reflections on whether non-formal educational actions had as a result of the implementation of an environmental project can provide knowledge, raise discussions and establish changes of perception of environmental matters in the population involved in the actions of this project. Taking as a framework for research the activities undertaken by the Projeto Águas do Cerrado, of which the Instituto Federal Goiano – Campus Ceres is a partner, with emphasis on the implementation of Agroforestry Systems (AFS), it was evaluated the educational consequences of this environmental program in Nova Aurora Settlement, located in the municipality of Santa Isabel, Goiás. The methodology for this research was based on a qualitative approach of data collected through participant observation, literature review, research in primary sources, analysis of questionnaires administered to people who were directly linked to the implementation of the project and interviews with a sample of the families affected by the project. The themes of the interviews focuses on the evaluation of the perception and representations on the environment these families live on the actions of this project, including the implementation of AFS for restoring degraded areas, as well as the actions of IF Goiano – Campus Ceres in the settlement. The results indicate, at a higher or lower level, the settlers were sensitized and had changed their environmental perception by the project actions. Today they demonstrate their motivation and perception of the need to preserve what exists, and also the need to take action for the restoring of areas that they have received with environmental liabilities, but it is clearly shown this process is dependent on the availability of technical and financial support as well as on an ongoing process of environmental education which can establish a new ethics in society-nature relationship. In this context, the relationship between IF Goiano – Campus Ceres and the settlement has the potential to catalyze this process of exchange and knowledge building, generating benefits for settlers and for students by experiencing the processes of interaction between school and community.