Educação infantil e agroecologia: pela saúde da crianças e da terra

Abstract

This project aims to develop agroecological pedagogical practices in a private school located in João Pessoa, Paraíba. The school was founded in December 2017 with the goal of offering transformative education, recognizing the human being as integral and interconnected to the environment. The proposal was to promote compassionate and sustainable coexistence, applying the principle of anti-speciesist intersectionality in the relationships established at the school. The target audience was children aged two to six, divided into two groups: one aged two to three and the other aged four to six. The activities were adapted from the literature according to the skills and needs of each age group, following the guidelines of the National Common Curricular Base. The objective of the experiences in agroecology in early childhood education was to awaken in children a sense of belonging to nature and responsibility towards the diverse forms of life, rescuing knowledge, stimulating empathy, dialogue and cooperation. These experiences also encouraged reflections on what we consume, how we consume it, where it comes from, where it goes, who produces it and how it is produced, with the aim of creating healthy, natural and pesticide-free collective experiences. The results were significant and were observed in the children's progress in their interactions - with each other and with nature -, in the improvement of ecological practices and in other aspects of the learning and understanding process.