Concepção de professores sobre a revitalização e uso da horta escolar para educação ambiental em uma escola municipal de Santa Helena, PR

Abstract

The present study, linked to the Research Line: Natural Products and Sustainability, aims to understand the conception that the teachers of a municipal school in Santa Helena, PR, have about the revitalization and use of the school garden as a tool to promote Environmental Education and Sustainability. The revitalization of the school garden was also carried out and the preparation of lesson plans with proposals for activities involving the school garden, as a suggestion for teachers to explore with the students, after the revitalization. The methodology used is of a qualitative nature, of a descriptive nature, in this way, the data collection instrument to represent the population to be studied will be given with the application in the form of an online questionnaire applied together with the group of teachers and cooks of the Professor Inês Mocellin School, on the importance of revitalizing the garden. Content Analysis was used as an instrument. As a result, 05 categories were identified for the use of the school garden, called context unit, which are: the use of the to work on content related to human health, such as healthy eating and the issue of pesticides; the vegetable garden to work on knowledge about the cultivation and development of plants; the use of the garden for the development of practical activities; Use of the Garden as an opportunity to expand educational possibilities, to work on different contents and in different disciplines; and the last one, the use of the garden to work on Environmental Education and sustainability. It is concluded from this study that the revitalized school garden in the teachers' conception becomes a didactic instrument, with countless teaching and learning possibilities that can be experienced by teachers and students, among them we have the production and consumption of natural foods that can be implemented school lunches, inclusion of topics related to home economics, exchange of knowledge, healthy eating, changing habits in students' food choices, in addition to exposing in practice the consequences that human actions have on the environment.