Turismo pedagógico: ferramenta para a sensibilização ambiental e cultural na Quarta Colônia de Imigração Italiana (RS)

Abstract

The present study approaches tourism as a broad and diversified pedagogy, as a source of cultural enrichment, by allowing the student to live as theories addressed in the classroom, while promoting environmental awareness. In order to prove this, a tourist-pedagogical route was used, with students from the final years of Elementary School to visit the patrimony historical-cultural-natural assets of the municipalities of Silveira Martins and São João do Polêsine, belonging to the region of the Fourth Colony of Immigration Italian RS. The objective of this work was to verify the potential of the tourist-pedagogical itineraries in the process of environmental education for the sensitization of the visiting students in the municipalities of the Fourth Colony of Italian Immigration, as spaces that show how the immigrant transformed its environment through the spatial organization, its relationship with nature and the elements that transformed the landscape. Qualitative research was adopted with methodology based on Research-Action and content analysis for the treatment of data. The analyzed information pointed out that the pedagogical tourism plays an important socio-educational role, by contributing to the learning approaching the theory of practice, awakening to the valuation of the patrimony be it environmental or cultural. It was also noticed that this activity provides the development of subjects in a global way, when addressing several themes that are worked during their execution, capable of making them citizens whose eyes are focused on acting in the world in a responsible way.