Extinção de abelhas: subsídios para uma proposta pedagógica na educação profissional e pedagógica

Abstract

The current research was carried out in association with the line of research of Educational Practices in Professional and Technological Education belonging to the Graduate Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT) of the Federal Farroupilha Institute (IFFAR), Jaguari campus. Its actions were developed at the São Vicente do Sul campus as part of the Integrated Agricultural Technical course. Through the thematic extinction of bees, present in the communities of origin of students, it was analyzed elements for curriculum aimed at high school/integrated courses of the Federal Institutes of Professional and Technological Education. The researched thematic was catalogued from a large exposure in the local media regarding the death of bees in apiaries. Thus, the question that guided the research process arose: “What would happen if the bees were extinct?”. Therefore, the research problem was designed as: In an educational process, what possibilities, limits and challenges, within the scope of professional and technological education, are structured around the thematic of pollination made by bees and the consequences of their possible extinction? This study seeks to “investigate the awareness of students on the phenomenon of disappearance of bees, under possible impacts of their disappearance in the natural environment and in their lives, in the context of an Integrated Technical Course in Agricultural and Professional and Technological Education". The methodology included investigation through a questionnaire, documental analysis of the Pedagogical Course Project (PCP) and Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) in the speeches produced by the students in the investigative questionnaire. The results found were compiled in the following categories: 1. Products used in agriculture are responsible for the death of bees; 2. Without bees, the pollination (reproduction) of plants will be wounded; 3. What the media silences: the relationship between the model of agriculture proposed by “agro” and the extinction of bees; 4. Extreme situation: agribusiness as the only possible form of agriculture; 5. A viable novelty: agroecology. As follows, this research has provided subsidies for the development of an educational product in the form of a pedagogical proposal for PTE.