Os sistemas agroflorestais como instrumento de ensino e aprendizagem

Abstract

The agroforestry project is an important teaching and learning strategy because it is characterized as an interdisciplinary pedagogical practice with the aim of bringing together different themes from the different curricular components present in the political pedagogical project of integrated high school technical courses. Therefore, the objective was to verify the perception of students of secondary level technical courses in the integrated modality in agriculture and agroecology at IFAP Porto Grande Agricultural Campus about the Agroforestry System (SAF, in Portuguese) as an educational space for carrying out integrative practices and the impact on the process of teaching and learning. This research is of an applied nature, with a mixed approach, in terms of classification based on objectives it is exploratory and descriptive, in terms of technical procedures it is characterized as field research. For data collection, two semi-structured questionnaires were used and were applied before and after the implementation of the SAF. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Amapa State (UEAP, in Portuguese) under opinion number 5,376,570. The data were analyzed focusing on the mixed approach, with graphical representation of the data using computer software programs Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft Word 2010. The objective questions were treated in graphs with percentage of responses, while for discursive questions, qualitative analysis was used. The results obtained show that SAF presents an interdisciplinary approach and contributes to the significant teaching and learning process. As a proposal for an educational product, a didactic booklet was prepared with five chapters, with general notions about agroforestry systems and the contributions to the teaching, with the aim of facilitating the understanding of the use of SAF as a didactic area aiming at the integration between technical and propaedeutic education, as well as the booklet was subjected to evaluation and validation in real classroom conditions.