Academic Garden and Distance Higher Education: an Experience in an In-Class Pole in Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Mônica
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Portugal, Anderson dos Santos, Lacerda , Fátima Kzam Damaceno de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EAD em Foco
• Texto Completo: https://eademfoco.cecierj.edu.br/index.php/Revista/article/view/1399

Vegetable gardens in educational institutions are characterized as places capable of expanding interpersonal relationships through didactic and sociability activities. This integrative potential can help fill gaps related to students difficulties to adapt to the differences between face-to-face and virtual environments in distance higher education. In this context, the objective of this work is to report the experience of elaboration and maintenance of a vegetable garden in an on-site support center located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which involved the participation of the academic and external communities. Two workshops were organized with 28 students and nine in-class mediator from the Biological Sciences graduation course. Pre- and post-activity questionnaires were used to collect the participants' opinion about the proposed action. It was found that students and the face-to-face mediators saw the academic vegetable garden as a facilitator of the teaching-learning process, even though 29% of the participants found it difficult to implement. Thus, the vegetable garden was considered a viable didactic experience in EaD, promoting spaces for teaching practices, research and extension.   Keywords: Distance education. Environmental education. Interdisciplinarity. Pedagogical mediation.