AGROECOLOGIA E DA EDUCAÇÃO DO CAMPO

Abstract

The principles of the Field Education are based on the struggles of the peasant social movements for an education that values ​​the cultures of the subjects that live and reproduce in the rural environment in their perspectives. In this context, agroecology has emerged as a leitmotiv of the Agricultural Family Schools (AFS), since it reconciles popular knowledge with agricultural practices, values ​​the peasant territorial identity and provides a better quality of life for these subjects. In view of the above, this text aims to analyze the educational experiences of Jacare (alligator) AFS and its agroecological bias, as a possibility to leverage family production, promoting the sustainability of the localities contemplated by the school. The AFS in Jacare is located in the state of Minas Gerais, in the region known as Vale do Jequitinhonha. In the course of the comprehensive methodology the empirical observation, the qualitative approach and the study of case were adopted, adding to the theoretical-conceptual assumptions of important references for the development of the themes mentioned. The research revealed that immersion in the reality of the students is the strategy to be followed towards the transformation of the school in benefit of the local communities.