Educação do campo e sustentabilidade : o caso da Escola Família Agrícola em Santa Cruz do Sul - RS.

Abstract

This paper presents a study about the Pedagogy of Alternation in the Escola Família Agrícola in Santa Cruz do Sul - RS (EFASC). To do this, there were described experiences and contributions of the Pedagogy of Alternation in the process of sustainable development. The study is characterized as a research developed through the dialectic and qualitative method, based on the guidelines of the participative research, trying to understand the process of Education of the Field and sustainability. In this sense, there was developed a participative research that aimed to verify the role of the students, families and teachers in the school context and in the sustainability process, verifying the changes that occurred in the communities where the students are inserted. As the actors engaged themselves, there were significant changes that point to the realization of a project of rural sustainable development, based on the diversification of production. The research was developed in 2011 and in the first half of 2012, in the EFASC and in the properties of the students‟ families. When the survey was concluded, it was verified that the Pedagogy of Alternation contributes to the process of sustainable development and to the promotion of life quality among young people and their rural communities, as well as in the Vale do Rio Pardo as a whole.