THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN EDUCATION IN AGROECOLOGY AND CONTEXTUALIZED EDUCATION FOR LIVING WITH THE SEMI-ARID: A LOOK AT TEACHER TRAINING IN THE HISTORY OF ALTO PAJEÚ PERNAMBUCANO
Field Education; Peasant Knowledge; Pedagogical Political Project.
The challenge of providing populations living in rural areas of the Semiarid Region with the prerogatives necessary for them to be the central protagonists in the construction of their history and way of life has stimulated studies on the strategic articulation between contextualized training of teachers and sustainable development. The teaching performance has a multidimensional character and expressive potential for transversality, being able to integrate the institutional attributions of the school-space to the redefinition of practices and knowledge, such as the agroecological field. Therefore, this research sought to understand the extent to which the principles of Education in Agroecology underlie the Continuing Education course in Contextualized Education for Living with the Semiarid, developed in Afogados da Ingazeira, in partnership with the JoaquimNabuco Foundation. The methodological design was structured based on a qualitative approach, considering the research procedures organized in document analysis, bibliographical research and field research, with the application of a structured questionnaire and participation in agroecology events. It was based on the assumption that Education in Agroecology and Contextualized Education for Coexistence with the Semi-arid Region, having in common the political-pedagogical principle of interaction between the knowledge of peasant work and scientific knowledge, in a process of teacher training, would establish dialogue with significant production of analyses. It was noticed that the Principles of Education in Agroecology are linked to the theoretical-methodological axis and to the political-pegogical principles of the Continuing Education course in Contextualized Education for Living with the Semiarid Region. Considering all the convergences and relationships, in addition to this thesis, the construction and publication as a Municipal Law, within a democratic and participatory process, of the Municipal Education Policy Contextualized for Coexistence with the Semiarid and Agroecology, in Afogados da Ingazeira, presents itself as final product of the research work, being a concrete intervention to the questions listed by the research.