The building of an artificial anthill as a proposal of Environmental Education for Rural Education

Abstract

This article describes a pedagogical experiment in the field of Natural Sciences, where a workshop was performed to build a didactical model in order to approach concepts, attitudes and values pertinent to the purpose of the Environmental Education, in the context of Rural Education. It is a qualitative research, of exploratory nature, characterizing as a case study about the actions and goals of the investigated object. Questionnaires and categorization of content analysis were used in order to interpret the data (Bardin, 2006). The workshop enabled the learning of concepts from the cooperativism subject, involving students in the process of acquiring scientific knowledge and values contextualized with their everyday routine. In the Rural Education these educational practice are necessary, so that the feeling of belonging to the environment, the richness of social relations and the potentialities of nature are contemplated in rural educational context.

Keywords

• Rural Education
• Natural Sciences
• Environmental Education