Agroecología y enseñanza de las ciencias naturales: una relación a considerar en la escuela rural

Abstract

Agroecology, as a multidisciplinary field of application, is theoretically and methodologically based on several disciplines, but its central foundation is traditional knowledge, which takes up ecological, social and economic principles of communities to favor agroecosystems and their various forms of regulation. In this article, three perspectives of agroecology are described, product of the bibliometric analysis carried out by the authors, and which allows us to glimpse elements to consider in the teaching of natural sciences, especially from rural schools, in order to suggest some investigative possibilities, pedagogical and didactic for its approach. Agroecology opens new study and research options in the rural school, as a center of cultural convergence, according to specific contexts and needs of the communities that promote, among others, food sovereignty, care for the environment and the resilience of agroecosystems. In conclusion, agroecology is gaining global interest, articulating itself in social processes and public policies in many countries around the world, rescuing and making visible local wisdom as a means to propose ways aimed, among other things, at satisfying current and future food needs of communities, where knowledge, interests, needs and cultural knowledge are articulated from the rural school.