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- Title
Agroecologia e saúde em horta comunitária: Intercâmbio de saberes e fazeres com comunidades acadêmica e não acadêmica.
- Authors
Nery Pereira, Renan; Mendes Paim, Joyce; Nascimento de Carvalho, Ítalo; Petitinga Silva, Patrícia
- Abstract
Universities are characterized by the inseparability of teaching, research, and extension. The extension connects academia and the non-academic community, providing exchanges, constructions, and remodelings of knowledge and actions. This paper aims to report on the experiences of the Curricular Action in Community and Society (ACCS), entitled "Community Garden: Exchange of Knowledge and Practice", a curricular component offered by the Institute of Biology at the Federal University of Bahia, during the second semester of 2019. The experience was conducted at the Carneiro Ribeiro Educational Center (Park School) in the Caixa D'água neighborhood of Salvador (Bahia State, Brazil). There were 15 meetings involving 51 students, three teachers and two collaborators from the school, the teacher responsible for the component at the university, 17 university students from different courses, and, in some meetings, students and teachers from other institutions. The meetings were divided into practical activities in the school vegetable garden and meetings for transdisciplinary debates, but there was also participation in events throughout the semester. These activities highlighted the curricular action's efforts to foster the ecology of knowledge, proposing a horizontal dialogue between the school and the university, the inclusion of historically marginalized knowledge and ways of doing things, and the construction of knowledge. Adopting a horizontal methodology allowed the participants to be trained in a transdisciplinary way as a tool for health education, encouraging the subjects' autonomy and spreading agroecological knowledge. This activity enabled the (re)construction of a community garden, collective reflection on the importance of these spaces, respect for traditional knowledge, and the construction of knowledge based on transdisciplinarity.
- Subjects
EL Salvador; COMMUNITY gardens; VEGETABLE gardening; TRADITIONAL knowledge; HEALTH education; COLLEGE students; TRADITIONAL ecological knowledge
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Extensão Universitária, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
1806-2695
- Publication type
Article