Rural sanitation and the construction of agroecological communities: Interventionist experience in the District of Tupi (Piracicaba/SP).

Abstract

Brazil's history reveals episodes of violence committed against traditional communities, as well as the neglect of the state in the public management of the rural environment. The deficit of environmental sanitation is one of the central factors in the challenges of promoting public health and well-being in these spaces. Faced with such challenges, social technology has gained space in recent decades and environmental education processes are fundamental for it to reach other perspectives on the complexity of territories and life. The research was developed in the district of Tupi in Piracicaba/SP, from the intervention research, through: mapping and diagnosis; socio-environmental educational intervention; and systematization and analysis of results. It provided a critical analysis of the interventionist process, understanding the facts that occurred, narratives and impressions of the researcher, the university extension group, and the community involved, about the main concepts of the research and problematizing themes that emerged in the process The interventionist process, through the environmental sanitation, based on participatory methodologies and libertarian educators, provided an in-depth look at the local reality, through a diversified look, enhancing the problematization of emerging issues, from which it can be pointed out, through social technologies and collective exercise, some alternatives viable.