Configurações subjetivas da ação pedagógica de professores, em formação CTSA, na horta escolar.

Abstract

The school garden, in addition to providing healthy food, can become an excellent teaching and learning laboratory. Research has shown that the school garden is an important learning context for teachers and students. This thesis aims to understand the subjective configurations of the teachers’ pedagogical actions, in continuing education with a CTSA focus, in the context of an HE. The research was based on the Theory of Subjectivity, Qualitative Epistemology and Constructive-interpretative Methodology. A mathematics and a physics teacher, from a fulltime public high school, on the outskirts of the city of Belém in the State of Pará, participated in the investigation. They were accompanied at school during all the process, from the formation of a study group on the new ENEM, in 2017, which also studied Science, Technology, Society and Environmental education when the implementation of a vegetable garden at school was proposed. This research focused on teachers' learning during the planning, task execution and evaluation of teaching activities, in the context of the school garden, between the years 2019 and 2023. Based on the interpretation of information obtained in informal conversations, participant observations, complements of sentences, essays and other material produced by teachers, two case studies were constructed, based on the indicators and hypotheses produced about the subjective meanings related to life history, social subjectivity and those produced during the teachers' pedagogical action. In both case studies, we understand that teachers faced demands generated at different levels of social subjectivity. They were initially done, with the subjective, relational and operational resources which were available, but they felt pressured to produce new subjective meanings and carry out new learning. This learning and new productions of subjective meanings expanded the teachers' possibilities of action and relationships, generated greater involvement in teaching and were organized in a configuration of subjective development, which motivated the production of new subjective meanings and new pedagogical actions, making a difference in the classroom. The school garden project has contributed positively to healthy eating in the school community and enhancing the learning of students and teachers. It has consolidated itself as a permanent project of the institution, which aims to become a self-sustainable school.