Avaliação do curso sobre agroenergia e seus impactos sociais: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The goal of this paper was to evaluate the course “Agroenergy – use of the energy in rural area”, taught to children who lives in farms. The course contemplates environmental matters and use of alternative sources of energy to pumping and heating water, food preparing, electric power generation, machines and equipment driving, etc, in a sustainable way, improving the rural life quality and the human permanence in the rural area. The methodology used to realize this job was qualitative search that, among other characteristics, it praises to valorize the knowledge construction process, where the main source of data is the natural environment, in which is inserted the individual as agent of social transformation. To collect the data it was used the technique of the standardized interview and non-standardized. Data collection was finished, the analysis was done and, positive behavioral changes were noted in several lived places, these people – children, parents and effluent – acquired a larger conscience about the environment, where the knowledge, values, abilities, experiences and determination taught during the process will contribute, in a short time, to become the participants apt to act individually or collectively to solve, nowadays, the environmental problems, guaranteeing a better future.