O Papel das Escolas Família Agrícola (EFA) no desenvolvimento de alternativas agrícolas em Mato Grosso do Sul: o caso da Escola Família Agrícola de Itaquiraí (EFAITAQ)

Abstract

This paper has as main objective analyze the role of the School of Agricultural Family Itaquiraí (EFAITAQ) and the contributions of Alternation Pedagogy as methodological reference developed in this, to stimulate the dissemination of agroecology in lots of families in the settlements of the Territory of the Southern Cone of Mato Grosso do Sul. This way, we search to understand the socioprofessional training of the alternating and examine the manifestation in the agroecology production implemented in your trajectory from the training experiment in EFAITAQ. The methodological procedures involved: review about the theme; questionnaires application with the alternating, professors, monitors and direction of EFAITAQ; Realization of visits and informal conversation with the alternating, beyond visits to five proprieties of alternating families of EFAITAQ, who developed agroecology. Based in these procedures, we found an embryonic process of implementation of agroecology practices in the rural settlements of the Territory of the Southern Cone of Mato Grosso do Sul, pointing new expectative and possibilities for the family agriculture developed in these settlements.