Agroecological community education, a method to strengthen humanity-nature bond in mayan peasant families

Abstract

This article presents partial results of a qualitative study that, through the grounded theory method and with the experience of a group of mayan peasant families, generated the category of agroecological community education. The objective of this text is to describe agroecological community education and its components, which can be understood as the usual dynamics of community life that includes teaching-learning processes, whose main technique is learning by doing, where theoretical and practical knowledge are shared at the same time (or almost at the same time), then for both educators and learners, knowledge becomes tangible immediately. It is necessary to say that not only aspects related to food production are included, that is not the reason for calling it agroecological, but rather because the agro world and its link with ecology (understood as the different ways in which beings live related to each other and to their environment) are so encompassing and at the same time deep that reach to touch different dimensions of both, individuality and collectivity, of peasant families.