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A sustentabilidade e boas práticas alimentares na educação infantil no CMEI professora Clarice Maria Breem do município de Quatro Pontes-PR

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Title: A sustentabilidade e boas práticas alimentares na educação infantil no CMEI professora Clarice Maria Breem do município de Quatro Pontes-PR Autor: Vergutz, Paula Cristina Boufleuher Primeiro orientador: Villalva Filho, Mario Ramão Abstract: This dissertation investigates the contribution of implementing an organic school garden at the Centro Municipal de Educação Infantil (CMEI) Professora Clarice Maria Bremm with children aged 2 to 3 years in Quatro Pontes-PR, to raising awareness about sustainable rural development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recognizing the urgency of Agenda 21 and the importance of Environmental Education for holistic development, the study proposed the garden as a pedagogical tool to engage children, families, and the school community in sustainable practices.Grounded in Michel Thiollent’s action research and Michel Bakhtin’s dialogical theories, the methodology sought transformation and the collective construction of knowledge. Data analysis, including reports from children and guardians, demonstrated that the school garden provided access to fresh, organic foods, encouraged healthier eating habits, and promoted understanding of cultivation practices without pesticides, such as the use of cistern water and natural fertilization.The results revealed the children’s protagonism throughout the process, from planting to harvesting, developing motor, cognitive, and social skills, and generating a lasting impact on families, who showed increased interest in planting at home and consuming vegetables. The children’s statements, analyzed from a Bakhtinian perspective, highlighted the internalization of the cultivation process and a positive association with health and well-being.The action research confirmed the garden’s potential to raise awareness about rural sustainability, connect participants with the environment, and promote concrete behavioral changes. Despite challenges such as family participation and the fragmentation of environmental education in curricula, the study concludes that projects like the school garden are powerful pedagogical tools. They promote food security, environmental awareness from early childhood — a crucial period for value formation — and significantly contribute to developing more conscious, participatory, and committed citizens, integrating the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of rural development. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação

O jovem rural e a profissionalização: desafios e perspectivas na educação

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Title: O jovem rural e a profissionalização: desafios e perspectivas na educação Autor: Inácio, Bruna dos Santos Primeiro orientador: Matte, Alessandra Abstract: Generational succession in Brazilian agriculture has emerged, in recent decades, as a growing challenge in light of the significant aging of the rural population and the increasing outmigration of young people from the countryside. These phenomena have been associated with declining rural fertility rates, urbanization, precarious educational policies targeting rural areas, and the absence of succession planning within agricultural properties. In this context, this chapter analyzed how technical vocational education, especially through integrated high school programs in the agricultural sector, could influence young people’s prospects of remaining in family farming, their participation in property management, and the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies. The main objective of this section was to understand how technical training contributed to the professional development of rural youth, enhancing their chances of staying in the agricultural sector and assuming the succession of family-owned farms. The methodology combined quantitative and qualitative approaches, including the analysis of secondary data from the 2017 Agricultural Census, the 2022 Demographic Census, and international databases (such as the World Bank Group), in addition to a review of national and international literature. Statistical analyses were conducted using RStudio software and included normality tests (Shapiro-Wilk and Kolmogorov-Smirnov), Pearson’s correlation, chi-square tests, and Tukey’s HSD test, allowing the identification of associations between educational attainment, gender, and the adoption of agricultural practices. The results showed a strong positive correlation (r = 0.9567; p < 0.001) between higher levels of education and greater frequency of soil amendment and fertilizer use. Mean analysis revealed that producers with technical education exhibited similar rates of technology adoption as those with higher education, master's or doctoral degrees, indicating the effectiveness of technical training in providing practical and immediate qualification for farmers. Moreover, Tukey’s test revealed a statistically significant difference only between producers with elementary education and those with postgraduate degrees (p = 0.0455), reinforcing the association between higher educational attainment and more efficient use of agricultural inputs. Another relevant finding was the gender inequality in rural succession: men still accounted for 81% of producers, while women represented only 19%. However, among producers under the age of 25, women accounted for 30%, suggesting a potential trend toward increased female participation among younger generations. Nonetheless, cultural and familial barriers persisted, making it difficult to recognize women's work as a legitimate criterion for land succession. Technical vocational education played a decisive role in ensuring the qualified permanence of rural youth by equipping them to manage farms, promoting the modernization of agricultural practices, and expanding opportunities for financial autonomy. Furthermore, when combined with public policies such as income transfer programs, access to credit, and educational inclusion, technical education proved to be a powerful strategy to address structural gender and income inequalities, thereby ensuring a more equitable, innovative, and sustainable continuation of agricultural production. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação

Planejamento territorial para comunidades rurais: o caso do assentamento Valmir Mota de Oliveira, Cascavel/PR

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Title: Planejamento territorial para comunidades rurais: o caso do assentamento Valmir Mota de Oliveira, Cascavel/PR Autor: Zanon, Roberto Primeiro orientador: Campos, Bruno Ferreira Abstract: This research investigates the importance of urbanism in territorial planning to analyze the potential and challenges in rural communities based on sustainability. The work proposed the use of the Sustainable Quality of Life Index for rural communities. The hypothesis suggests that urban planning knowledge, linked especially to territorial planning, enables the improvement of good rural living. The objective was to verify quality of life data and, based on the results, carry out an analysis and provide recommendations for the rural community of the Valmir Mota Settlement. The methodology used was mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) and action research. Among the aspects revealed by the research, the issues with the greatest difficulties for the community are related to the areas of health, transportation, sanitation, mobility, road conditions, and sports facilities, which need to be highlighted from the point of view of territorial planning. The more neutral issues, that is, mediumterm issues, are security, consumer goods, housing quality, sound quality, preservation of green areas, and community political participation. Issues with good potential, that is, with a high level of potential for community development, are linked to education, family and individual income, commerce, air quality, discussions about improvements, implementation of cultural facilities, community events, and water supply infrastructure. In short, popular participation in community events and political discussions is considered fundamental for social cohesion and generating financial autonomy for the community. It is evident that having government subsidies is also an important factor for local development. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação

A negação dos direitos previdenciários aos camponeses do acampamento Sebastião Camargo em São Miguel do Iguaçu - PR

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Title: A negação dos direitos previdenciários aos camponeses do acampamento Sebastião Camargo em São Miguel do Iguaçu - PR Autor: Depiné, Fabiana Telles David Primeiro orientador: Fabrini, João Edmilson Abstract: This research aims to demonstrate the struggle of the peasants of the Sebastião Camargo Camp, located in the municipality of São Miguel do Iguaçu/PR, regarding recognition as rural producers in a family economy regime for social security purposes. The peasants in the camp of Sebastião Camargo, in addition to the struggle for land (struggle for the fair distribution of land, as provided for in the legislation that deals with agrarian reform), also seek recognition as rural producers in a family economy regime, in order to have access to social security rights. Legal recognition as rural producers in a family economy involves the recognition of the campers as agricultural producers, seeking ways to have their work activity (agricultural) recognized, which allows them to have access to the guarantee of rights denied in the not so distant past, including the social security losses that non-recognition as rural producers entails, both now and in the future. It is worth noting that, according to social security legislation, peasants, campers, workers or rural producers in a family economy regime are recognized only as rural producers. Although they have different concepts in other areas of knowledge, for the law they are the same legal subject and therefore in this research, we will treat all of them as rural producers in a family economy regime. The condition of rural producers in a family economy of the campers can be verified in their production in the small area they occupy, mainly fruit and vegetables, commercial and subsistence; as well as in their contribution (payment) to social security to guarantee their rights to benefits. However, the struggle in the sphere of legality and the guarantee of rights, such as social security, does not mean disregarding or sidelining the entire trajectory of peasant struggle and resistance in social movements such as the struggle to conquer land. In this sense, structural struggles such as the struggle for agrarian reform land go hand in hand with struggles in the sphere of the institutional order for the guarantee of legal rights, the central theme of this research. The elaboration of this research was supported by a group of authors who deal with the theme; access to documents, mainly legal and official; and field data collection (interviews and questionnaires with campers), which provided empirical support for understanding the denial, struggles and achievements of rights, in this case, social security rights for campers in Sebastião Camargo. Bibliographical, exploratory and descriptive research was carried out, in which articles and doctrines were analyzed, with a descriptive and documentary bias. The research was exploratory in nature, with the purpose of exploring all fields with the possibility of extracting the information necessary to obtain satisfactory results. The research carried out will be bibliographical research, prepared from previously published material (books, articles, theses, etc.), intensively reviewing the existing literature on a given subject in question. A questionnaire was applied by sampling (28 of the 90 families) to collect data on family composition, income, production, form of marketing of production and which benefits have been requested and denied to date. By conducting this research, we conclude that the lack of recognition as rural producers directly reflects the lack of access to social security rights, which all producers and workers who are part of Social Security have the right to access. We understand that the same problem faced by the campers at Sebastião Camargo (lack of recognition as rural producers in a family economy regime) is also present in other camps and that perhaps the methods applied to solve the problem in this camp can be disseminated and used in other camps in the country. Publisher: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná Tipo do documento: Dissertação