Environmental rural perception of students of elementary education in schools of the Municipality of Ijui-RS

• Autor(a) principal: Coutinho, Luana Carvalhaes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Schoffel, André, Camera, Juliane Nicolodi, Golle, Diego Pascoal, Broch, Jordana Luisa, Figueiró, Michele Ferraz, Koefender, Jana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/15875
• topic: Percepción; Educación ambiental; Agricultura ecológica; Ensenãnza.; Perception; Environmental education; Ecological agriculture; Teaching.; Percepção; Educação ambiental; Agricultura ecológica; Ensino.

It’s understood that the knowledge and understanding of the students' perceptions regarding the environment in which they live and how they interact with it’s fundamental for guiding practices in environmental education. Thus, the objective of this research was to understand the environmental perception of students that attend schools located in rural environment as to the effect of the pesticide on the environment and its reflex on human health. The study was accomplished in two primary schools located in the municipality of Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, from March to July 2018, with the participation of 20 students per school. The research was descriptive, of a qualitative nature based on the students' narrative, through the accomplishment of a semi-structured interview, having the criteria of inclusion being son of a farmer and/or a resident in rural areas. Content analysis was integrated into the interpretation and, through text mining, the content was hierarchized using the IRaMuTeQ software. The analyzes in this study were: frequency distribution of words, frequency of words according to the factors: children of farmers; use of pesticides and gender; word cloud and similarity analysis. It was evidenced that the majority intends to migrate to the city in order to attend higher education and search alternative forms of work and income. The use of pesticides in properties and cases of intoxication were mentioned. In this way, it was verified that the perception of aspects that involve the environment differs in virtue of the reality of each individual, as well as between the evaluated series.