Inserção de horta escolar como alternativa de promover a educação ambiental e alimentar

Abstract

In the academic context, the environmental education composes as a transdisciplinary construction of knowledge, having as its intention the adoption of practices that include the integration of countless fields such as health, environment and social development. In this context, the insertion of a vegetable garden in the academic space aims to provide an improvement in the students’ nutritional quality, besides satisfactorily contributing for the educational pedagogic process, with the approach and fortification from social relationships of all the subjects envolved in the activities. The present study had as its aim to promote the implementation of a vegetable garden at the Municipal School Irineu Batista Camara, placed in Japurá – Paraná, having as main focus the envorinmental and nutritional education through the deployment and maintenance of the vegetable garden, besides the interaction from the school community in the project’s development. The study was developed with studentes of ages between eight and ten years old, envolving around 100 students. To verify the involvement and relevance from this action, took place through a questionnaire of qualitative character a lifting about the degree of contact and knowledge from the students about the topic. After the questionnaire application, the vegetable garden execution happened, performing the soil adjustment and fertilizing with chicken’s bed, installation and implantation from the crops, as its monitoring with the students since planting to harvesting. The results we had illuminates that the insertion of a vegetable garden in the academic context as a pedagogical tool in students and school community’s context is of the utmost importance, since the students who were involved with the project understood the importance of a healthy and nutritional subsistence and of an environmental education to change the actual social conjuncture.