EXTENSÃO E PRÁTICA SOCIAL: EXPERIÊNCIA COM OFICINAS DE SUSTENTABILIDADE EM ESCOLA RURAL

Abstract

This paper describes the experience of extension activities with pedagogical practices in school workshops with the Rural Sustainability in Rural School Pedro Lovato / RS-Brazil. The experience results in practices that seek to reflect the environmental and social situation, in order to offer and share with the students educational and scientific tasks addressing sustainability and promoting an awareness process. The workshops run of the concept developed by Paulo Freire in building a popular education, involving students in various forms of activities, in practical action, encouraging discovery, to think, to create, to experimentation and discussion, seeking autonomy student through criticality being developed. Through group dynamics were developed ten workshops covering topics of sustainability, animal welfare, milking management, preservation of flora, fauna, cultural and historical restoration ecology, with the construction of compost and garden suspended. The activities were conducted in June 2012, by students of class 11 and 12 of the discipline of Agricultural Extension UFSM on coordination the teacher responsible for the course, where the results obtained allowed the students both the academic college as the elementary school, the proximity and interaction between the school environment and academia, providing the exchange of knowledge necessary for the development of a social practice that corroborates in developing an intervention process educative and transformative. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]