O Projeto Zooequino: contribuições e Impactos na formação discente do Instituto Federal do Ceará - Campus Crato

Abstract

Considered one of the most important rural activities in the Cariri region of the state of Ceará, Northeastern Brazil, the equinoculture is a great income generator with an economic and entrepreneurial contribution to equine production. Thus, the present study seeks to highlight the potential and contributions of the Zooequino Project for the undergraduate training in the Bachelor of Science in Zootechnics course at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará - IFCE Campus Crato. In the search for meaningful learning, the general objective of the work was to analyze the training course of these students, who work in the zooequino project, in the promotion of professional training so that they can interact in an interdisciplinary way, interlinking knowledge among breeders of horses in the region and still highlight the impact of this dialogical formation on the extension between the institute and the local community As a methodological approach, we used documentary and bibliographic analysis with the official records of the Study Group, Research and Extension in Equine Ecology (Zooequino), such as pedagogical reports, rural extension practices in the field of equinoculture and in field diaries, with interviews and questionnaires with the students. In this way the mentioned study shows that the educational implementation in the zootechnical course of the IFCE / Campus Crato through the zooequino project has been of extreme importance for the viability of activities that has contributed in the professional qualification of zootechnicians trained in this institution; as well as contributing to the social development through the knowledge given to the equine producers of the micro region of CaririCearense. Strengthening the local and regional productive arrangements, seeking to contribute to the balanced development of new technologies in animal production, committed to ethical issues, and ecological and economic sustainability.