Pedagogical Workshop as a Learning Tool in Meliponiculture

Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate the efficiency of the pedagogical workshop as a tool for teaching the creation of stingless bees. The research was carried out at IFES, Campus Santa Teresa, with the participation of seventeen students from the technical course in agriculture, ten farmers and two technicians from the municipality's agriculture department. During the workshop, basic notions on stingless beekeeping were introduced in two components: ecology and breeding technology. The pedagogical workshop was conducted with the division of participants into three groups and was presented in seven blocks. In each block, three subjects were presented simultaneously, lasting between 15 and 20 minutes. For data collection, we used student participation, student-teacher interaction, content approach, evaluation of results before and after field research, and to evaluate the overall performance of the workshop, we worked with IDAPI, index performance on bee knowledge. We conclude that this pedagogical presentation, allows to give an organization different from the traditional one, privileging a methodology that favors the learning in a natural and ecologically conscious way.