Projeto Escola Verde – horta escolar e empreendedorismo sustentável: concepções e práticas para educação ambiental participativa em Macapá (AP)

Abstract

The article addresses the project Green School: School Garden and Sustainable Entrepreneurship, proposed by the State Secretariat of Education of Amapá. It was conceived in 2017 as a multiplier of social and environmental actions that leads to the conservation of the environment and stimulate sustainable entrepreneurial attitudes, according to agroecological techniques in the production of the vegetable garden. The goal is to present analysis about educational conceptions and practices in environmental education, fostered in the project, focusing on the participatory teaching-learning process, as well as on social-environmental awareness and social inclusion of public school students in Macapá / Amapá. The research was based on the qualitative approach through content analysis. As methodological procedures, we opted for documentary analysis and participant observation in four of the 10 (ten) schools contemplated in the project. Among the main results, it was verified that the project reveals a bold aspiration, and even in the midst of the difficulties, it has been conquering some positive results in the practices developed in the schools that tend to guide the actions of the students in the natural and social environment, giving rise to new forms relationship with the environment. It was concluded that it is a feasible project, as long as it has commitment of all partners involved; and that the vegetable garden is a conducive field to participative educational practice aimed at changing attitudes and behaviors related to the environment, in the training context of critical and protagonists citizens in practices that reveal the current scenario of socio-environmental degradation.