The Programa Mais Educação and school garden: outlook geographic / O Programa Mais Educação e a horta escolar: perspectivas geográficas

Abstract

The school garden is an activity developed in the municipal and state schools that are part of the Programa Mais Educação. The program's operational area was demarcated to meet, on a priority basis schools that have low basic education development indices. This program was created to address on a priority basis the schools that have low basic education development index. Such activity is mainly focused on integrating the various sources and learning resources. In this context it enables students to become aware-the actions it is guided as well as research on farming techniques, and how the teaching of Geography is permeates on these teaching practices in teaching and student learning and participating researchers to join together in commit to rethink live, perceive and conceive of the lived space grounded in the geographical perspective of the relationship between society and nature. The activity was developed at the Escola Municipal Nise da Silveira, located in the city of Maceió, Alagoas state. The project allowed students direct contact with the ground, which may prepare the soil, to know and associate the food cycles of sowing, planting, growing, be careful with the plants and harvest them.

Keywords

• Geographic Perspectives
• Education
• Horta school