Ensaios de uma nova forma escolar na escola itinerante Caminhos do Saber

Abstract

The Caminhos do Saber Itinerant School is located in the Maila Sabrina Camp, in the city of Ortigueira-PR, Brazil, and is linked to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). Because of this connection with the MST, the institution adopts a specific pedagogical proposal, developed through the Cycles of Human Formation with Complexes of Study, and seeks to overcome in its form and content the conservative model of the capitalist school, which reproduces the pattern of social relations that are established in this society, by assuming a doctrinal and subordination-generating character. In this sense, the present research aims to identify the rehearsals of a new School Form performed at the Caminhos do Saber Itinerant School. This objective unfolds in understand the class character that the school has as an institution, making a counterpoint between the capitalist school and the itinerant schools, conceptualize the School Form and understand how the capitalist School Form is manifested today and exemplify the traces of a new School Form that exist in the Caminhos do Saber Itinerant School, demonstrating the influence of this way on the learning of the subjects who are present at this school. A participatory research was developed, considering the researcher's involvement with the analyzed reality, as well as semi-structured interviews with four educators and four students, and reviews of bibliographies related to the theme and of school documents. The research also relied on the qualitative analysis of the data and is not conclusive. As a result of the research, we identified as elements of the new School Form that we seek to build: the self-organization of students, the pedagogical collective and the spaces of participation of these subjects in the process of collective organization of the school and the role of the school in the formation of subjects fighters and builders of a new society. It is concluded that the traits of a new School Form that are being tested, even though they face resistance to manifest themselves fully, given the contradictions present in the attempt to overcome the capitalist School Form, make tension towards building a new model of school, education and society.