Conhecimentos, valores e práticas em um curso de formação em agroflorestas na agricultura urbana

Abstract

Urban agriculture is an agricultural modality that has signaled several benefits, promoting beneficial changes in the local environment, economic and environmental structure, therefore an interesting activity to be considered in education. However, despite this relevance, there are still important gaps, both theoretical (in the academic literature) and practices (that is, in social practices), in relation to formal and informal educational activities, involving urban SAFs, this can contribute to education. In view of this, this research analyzed the knowledge, values and practices (KVP) of the educational actors participating in a course aimed at teachers and other interested in the theme urban agriculture and education, called Teacher Training Day in Agroecological and Agroforestry Systems, which took place in the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Through the foregoing, it was possible to raise difficulties that prevent pedagogical activities involving urban agriculture, such as lack of knowledge, material resources, collaboration and association with the formal curriculum; and to attribute the contribution of the Training Day to the development of conceptual, procedural and attitudinal dimensions of the content, for the increase of knowledge, practices and values related to the theme urban agriculture in general, for the development of systemic and therefore more socio environmentally inclusive conceptions, for the association of values (such as patience, love and respect) allied to the content, and also, for the reduction of the anthropocentric ethical tendency in relation to the theme of agriculture.