Educar para a sustentabilidade: a experiência da Casa Familiar Rural de Boa Vista do Ramos - Amazonas

Abstract

This work, the result of a research project investigated the experience of the Rural Family House Boa Vista do Ramos -Am, with the broader aim of identifying the contributions of experience to the local development and solidarity from their teaching methodology. The study was conducted in qualitative research in order to enhance the meanings that people give to their actions, means in that build their lives, their relationship and inseparable link with the context in which they are inserted. As methodological tools we use : (i) the literature on the subject, from theses, dissertations, several publications, material in electronic media and others; (II) desk research, through important documentary sources for analysis of the experience of CFR Boa Vista do Ramos as study plans of students, technical visits reports, bylaws of the CFR of Boa Vista do Ramos, minutes, crafts, memos, and other curriculum; (III) field research with the use of interviews semi- structured interviews for selecting the monitors working in the technical area (related to technical agriculture, agro-ecology, forest management and breeding in integrated systems), and teachers from subjects of general training ( Portuguese Language, Mathematics , Science, History and Geography). Also participated in the interviews students graduating classes of 2005 and 2007, parents, representatives of ARCAFAR-AM and financial partners and technical and pedagogical support. The criteria for selection of young students, monitors, teachers and graduates took place in the form of draw at the General Meeting of the Association of CFR Boa Vista do Ramos. However, the paucity of time, the selected parents of young were also selected. Regarding the representative of the social movement and community member, the criterion for selection was given by participation and attendance at meetings and events organized by the project. The study allowed on the one hand, find that the experience of CFR Boa Vista Ramos is significant for the subjects of the field once that knowledge is organized from the reality of them. Thus, it was possible to identify the proposal seated in the Pedagogy of Alternation can be a viable educational alternative for the field Boavistense From the interviews, we identified the effort for the occurrence of integration school / family / community in the educational dynamics of the CFR of Boa Vista do Ramos. Despite the difficulties inherent in a project with this profile, there is a significant contribution of the CFR for the youth field Boavistense, since it is viewed by the subjects as a possibility for the strengthening development of the productive units, with the introduction of techniques related to family farming and community empowerment in the struggle for legitimacy of social rights. The research purposed contribute also with the Amazonian movement As a Rural Education, to recognize and discuss the numerous gestated education experiences in the State of Amazonas, by social movements, pointing theoretical elements to this debate.