Generating themes and pedagogical work at the Centro Estadual Integrado de Educação Rural de Águia Branca, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil

Abstract

The present work is the result of the Master Thesis on the possibilities of contextualization of Environmental Education at Centro Estadual Integrado de Educação Rural de Águia Branca (CEIER-AB). Its main objective is to understand the possible interfaces between the generator themes, the pedagogical work and the students’ reality of life. Regarding the methodological issues we used predominantly the bibliographic research, school documents, observations, experiences and questionnaires applied to students and teachers of the 3rd grade of the High School Integrated to the Technical Course in Farming. We investigated the organization of the work with Generating Themes, based predominantly on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the oppressed (2014). Working with the generating themes, we identified that the environmental and social issues were contemplated in this study. We understand that such questions resonate with students’ discourse and awareness, demonstrating in their speech an enormous critical sense. We also found that the interface between generator themes and pedagogical work allowed a close approximation between scientific and popular knowledge.