Concepções de professores sobre quintais agroflorestais e seus serviços ambientais

Abstract

The present work had as general objective to know the teachers' conceptions about the environmental services provided by the Tupé Sustainable Development Reserve – Tupé RDS, through the relationship with the agroforestry backyards. Two questions guided the development of this study: How do teachers conceive of agroforestry yards for pedagogical practices? And what are the conceptions attributed by teachers regarding the environmental services provided by agroforestry yards? This dissertation is organized into five sections. In the first one, we bring the theoretical framework on the themes that support this research: Environmental Conception, Environment Conception, Environmental Education and Environmental Services and agroforestry yards. The second refers to the Locus of Research, which were the Municipal Schools: Cannã II and Paulo do Freire. In the third, we describe the research methods and techniques, where we bring elements of qualitative research, and we use two techniques to obtain the data, the semi-structured interview and document analysis. In the fourth section, we present the general and natural environment characterization of the Tupé RDS. In the fifth and last section, we present the analysis of the results obtained, where teachers recognized the benefits that agroforestry backyards provide to residents of the area, but they often do not know how to use this natural environment in their pedagogical practices. To overcome this deficiency present in the day-to-day of teachers, the importance of continuing education in Environmental Education for sustainability was highlighted, providing insight into knowledge about the natural environment of the Reserve, such as the backyards and their benefits. Key-words: Environmental Design; Agroforestry backyards; Pedagogical practices