Proposta didática para abordar o conceito de biodiversidade em uma escola do campo do município de Uberaba-MG

Abstract

This work is based on the difficulties of breaking with the traditional educational processes in the field education as well as the barriers that impede the teaching of science in the field schools. For this research, ethnographic methodology was used with the participant observation technique. It is proposed to discuss the process of elaborating a Didactic Intervention (ID), based on the Freirean Thematic Research (IT), which involves the concept of Biodiversity (BD), with the participation of regular high school students from Uberaba-MG. From the application of the Thematic Research, which is composed of five stages: "Preliminary Survey", "Codification", "Decoding", "Thematic Reduction" and "Implementation", it becomes possible to identify through the dialogues between student teacher and teacher-student the contradictions lived by the rural community. Through the thematic investigation privileged by the didactic intervention, discursive movements were enabled, which led to the discussions of the identified limit situations. Thus, it was possible to identify five possible limiting situations: maltreatment in the production line, use of agrochemicals, soil contamination by inappropriate waste disposal, infertile soil and social inequality in land distribution (agrarian reform). These limiting situations were used to develop a Didactic Intervention (ID) in the same school group. Finally, the results found in this work are relevant to the use of the concept of Biodiversity, aiming to investigate the process of elaboration of a didactic-pedagogical proposal in the context of a rural school, analyzing the main problems perceived by the subjects, creating a situation (jury-simulated) and verifying the applicability of Thematic Research in this context.