Educação ambiental e segurança alimentar no âmbito da educação profissional técnica de nível médio em agropecuária

Abstract

The present research embraced aspects on how the environmental education may contribute to the agricultural output of victuals based on the alimentary safety and within the middle-level professional technical education in agriculture. The approach has focused on the relationship between environmental education and alimentary safety, the environmental education or the focus, in classroom, in the context of the second semester of the technical course in agriculture of the Polytechnic School of UFSM during the second semester of 2010, and the investigation about the insertion of the environmental education in to this teaching modality. This research had qua-litative character. In the context of the present study, the relationship between envi-ronmental education and alimentary safety was shown to be able of increase the education in the theoretical/practical sense of the technical-level vocational education through the perspective of the development of the professional formation supported by the interdisciplinarity as an essential tool for the teaching/learning process. In or-der to do so, it is necessary a greater effectiveness in paying attention to the curricu-lar references for the professional education as well as a full consideration regarding the thematic of environment as a transversal theme of the National Curricular Para-meters to be applied in the school settings of the professional technical education in agriculture. Thus, it becomes possible to contribute to the formation of agricultural technicians committed with the social and economical development, respecting the ethical, moral, cultural, social, and ecological values.