Oficinas criativas: uma iniciativa pedagógica para estimular a educação alimentar e ambiental nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This work presents the adversities that a contemporary society, dependent on consumerism, brings to the life of a child in the early years of elementar school, as well as the consequences of the lack of environmental and food education. However, these problems were considered as opportunities and object of study for this final paper due to the need to approach healthy eating in an open and effective way with content aimed at children with the purpose of enabling them to beable to reflect on the subject. This will be a continuation of colleague Kmiecik’s (2018) final paper, that addressed the topic of community garden with non-edible food plants. Thus, the objective is to develop a conceptual project of a pedagogical product, with the intention of stimulating food and environmental education in elementary school students from 1st to 5th grade have when visiting an urban garden like the Fazenda Urbana of Curitiba that offers. In order to concretize this objective, the work has 2 stages: research and project, supported by Sprint Scrum, therefore bibliographic research, document analysis and exploratory research will be carried out in order to go deeper into the context addressed in this work and then, the methodology Human Centered Design methodology (IDEO, 2011) will be used. In addition, Pazmino’s (2015) techniques and tools were selected to assist in each of the phases of the methodology. Meanwhile, the approaches and inspirations of 6 areas of design: educational, emotional, experience, sensorial, participatory and sustainability were included to create a true solution for the target audience. Thus, through the data collected with the team of high abilities of Escola Municipal Felipe Zeni, their professors, professionals in the area of child psychology, agricultural engineering and the employees of the visited urban garden, was conceived the idea of an instruction manual for those interested in applying for children, together with support materials such as field diary and biodegradable pot model to assemble, encouraging and instructing children to interact, investigate, taste and share the plants they have taken care of, through the use of the narrative technique. Finally, it was observed that the workshops and support materials can and should be applied in more places than initially planned, and this happened with the information collected during the project, with listening being one of the main elements of this study.