"Eu que plantei”: educação ambiental frente ao consumo de agrotóxicos nos alimentos

Abstract

This research fundamentally corresponded to the elaboration of a training instrument for Environmental Education, aimed at teachers, children and their families from the Municipal Basic Education Network of Anápolis, with the main objective of constituting more conscious attitudes towards the consumption of pesticides in food. It presents an educational product consisting of an interactive platform in the format of a Blog and a food planting kit, named “Eu Plantei”. It was developed inside the Critical Eenvironmental Education, based on the purposes of helping studentes become aware of the transformation of social contexts and training people capable of identifying, questioning, proposing solutions and acting on socio-environmental issues. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic period and facing a scenario of insecurities that exposed people to the unusual risk of life, we focused our attention on the permanent risk of eating pesticides in food. We believe that the few concerns about the consumption of poisons arise from the lack of information about the harmful effects that pesticides can cause on consumers. With that in mind, we asked ourselves the following question: "In wich ways can the educational product contribute to the constitution of conscious attitudes towards the consumption of pesticides in food through Critical Environmental Education?" We assume as a hypothesis that the combination of the virtual platform with the workshops can constitute a formative praxis in the constitution of sustainable postures, in face of the consumption of food with pesticides. In this sense, we conclude that the blog proposal articulated the practical workshop can allow the engagement and discussion of the participants, as it serves as an instrument of dialogue, exchange of information and experiences among all so that the subjects become the central actors of the training process itself.