Educação no campo : escola do assentamento Monte Alegre

Abstract

This research has as its main aim a rural school in Araraquara, São Paulo. Since 2002, this city has a program named Rural School Program that covers three public schools: one in a county named Bueno de Andrada, another one in a rural settlement named Bela Vista and the last one in settlement, the Monte Alegre . The field research happened in the last school, at Monte Alegre . This program keeps working, once it was covered in the Municipal Plan of Education for the decade 2004-2013. When we entered into the Rural Primary School Maria de Lourdes da Silva Prado, we had the aim to discover if the education offered there is a real rural education or if is just an education in the rural area. For this, we ve realized some interviews, with the coordinator, teachers and workers. We ve tried to discover if for these people the education in this school is different or not of the one that is offered in the urban schools. We also tried to understand what this group think about rural education and how some of them believe that this should happen. We ve used some questionnaires with the students, to see if they think there s a difference between the rural school, where they study, and the school in the city, and also about the advantages and disadvantages that these students see in a rural school. What we realized is that even the Rural School Program keeps operating, it s not working as it should, since that in these ten years there re lots of changes in its elaboration. A lot of these changes are inside the municipal education secretary and others are inside the rural schools.