Educational tourism on coffee farms:

Interdisciplinary strategies for high school

Abstract

Educational rural tourism manifests educational practices outside the formal school and institutional environments through tourism activities in rural areas. In this context, coffee farms were chosen as the guiding element of this research due to their historical, cultural, and economic relevance in Brazil. The aim was to analyze the potential of educational tourism on coffee farms in developing interdisciplinary experiences in Brazilian high schools. The research is characterized as qualitative, descriptive, and analytical. We used the bibliographic research as methodological procedures, based on publications about the themes of educational tourism, rural educational tourism, tourism on coffee farms, and documentary research, based on official documents from the Ministry of Education, including the National Common Curricular Base. Thus, the results point to the coffee production environment as a promoter of interdisciplinary teaching-learning experiences, involving traditional areas of knowledge such as History, Geography, Sociology, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Furthermore, the learning and appreciation of the production in the field can occur from activities that relate in a practical way to the primary skills expected in formal education. The planting, processing, architectural structures, landscapes, among other rural elements, make it possible to think about schooling through different approaches, such as environmental, food, and heritage.