O fechamento das escolas do campo no município de Barão de Cotegipe-RS: correlação de forças e principais impactos

Abstract

The nucleation of the Municipal Schools of the Field of the Municipality of Barão de Cotegipe - RS, was that it triggered this work. The present study investigated the closure of Campo Schools in the municipality of Barão de Cotegipe, RS, in the year 2015, aiming to explain the implications, correlations of forces and conceptions that led to the closure of five rural schools belonging to the municipal school system . It is a qualitative, investigative research, in the form of case study. As research instruments, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and documentary research were used, seeking information on how the pedagogical work is being developed and whether it is contemplating the reality of the students living in the field. Among the main documents analyzed, the LDB National Curricular Guidelines, the documents of the National Conferences for a Field Education and an in-depth study on the field education paradigm were consulted. It was concluded that the closure of schools was essential, since the number of students was very small and there were no prospects of increasing them for the year 2016, but the impact would be less if nucleation had occurred in the field, since school transportation was already present in all the communities involved; with regard to the students, they are more positive than the positive ones in relation to the closing of these rural schools, do not feel inserted in this current context, where their experience, their culture and their history are not part of the new reality; the parents consider that nucleation was positive in relation to pedagogy, since their children have more access to the technologies and one teacher per series, but that the same could have been done in the field. The teachers evaluated that nucleation was positive in most of the researched aspects.