Políticas públicas para a educação do campo: desafios e perspectivas para a Casa Familiar Rural de Conceição do Araguaia

Abstract

This research aims at identifying the public policies directed to rural education that meet the specifics of the Rural Family House of Conceição do Araguaia, verifying the challenges that this school faces to have access to these public policies, and if there are prospects of Public policies aimed at financing, recognizing and supporting their teaching activities. The Rural Family House of Conceição do Araguaia is a community organization of farmers, created by the social movements of the countryside and managed by the Association of Families. Its purpose is to offer integral education of Elementary School and the Secondary Education Integrated to the course of Agropecuaria for the youth of the field using the methodology of the Pedagogy of Alternation. Its foundation in the municipality arises from the perception of the peasants that the rural education offered by the public power in the field was imbued with numerous problems and unrelated to the way of life and work in the countryside. In this way it was necessary to create a school to counteract the current rural education model and to guarantee a formation linked to the life and permanence of families in the countryside. In order to finance the teaching activities of the CFR, the Association of Families demands from the public power public policies to foster the functioning of this school, however, since its foundation, the CFR has had problems related to infrastructure, lack of consumer and pedagogical material, does not have enough teachers and other professionals. The present work is corroborated, above all, by the visions of the people who experience the daily life of the CFR. The information was accessed through the follow-up to the CFR by the researcher, through an interview, with questionnaire application to six members of the board, of which three are founding members and for the analysis of CFR documents (PPP, Internal Rules, Minutes , Reports and agreements). An important conclusion of this work was that the CFR, despite historical efforts of negotiation with the representatives of the public power in the various instances to mobilize juridical, economic, people and recognition resources, did not obtain guarantees of sustainability and recognition what leaves this school of Field Education with a low perspective of access to public policies