For a significant geography: readings on urban agriculture and the importance of fieldwork for research and teaching geography / Por uma Geografia significativa: leituras sobre a agricultura urbana e a importância do trabalho de campo para a pesquisa e o ensino de Geografia

• Published in: Diversitas Journal Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 169 - 179
• Main Authors: Leandro Matias dos Santos, Michelle Emanuelle Silva, Cirlene Jeane Santos e Santos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Alagoas 01-03-2018
• Subjects: Fieldwork. Teaching Geography; Urban Agriculture
• ISSN: 2525-5215
• DOI: 10.17648/diversitas-journal-v3i1.596

This article is based on the fieldwork carried out by researchers from NUAGRARIO together with the students of the 5th period of the subject Agrarian Geography, of the Geography Courses (licenciatura and baccalaureate), Federal University of Alagoas on Urban Agriculture, in the municipality of Maceió -AL. In order to verify if the selected areas virtually contained the practice of urban agriculture. In this way, the main objective of the article is to demonstrate the importance of the work of campo no process of social formation through the understanding, observation and recognition of reality, highlighting the geographic contents that can be approached through this methodology.