Fechamento das escolas do campo: análise do município de Nova Laranjeiras

Abstract

This work analyzed the process by which schools of Nova Laranjeiras municipality are closed. To understand this process we used interviews, qualitative and quantitati-ve studies and documents which presented concepts of Education, Rural Education, rural and urban. Thus, a document survey was done of all schools closed from 1993 to 2014. At first, we did a study in literature to better comprehend the totality of the research and later we did interviews and visits in the Núcleo Regional de Laranjeiras do Sul, Secretaria Municipal de Nova Laranjeiras and all the schools of the Munici-pality with the aim to better undertand the impacts of theses closures. Our results suggest to a underestimation of Education, Rural Education and the people who live in the countryside. These data also showed the importance of the countryside lifes-tyle and Rural Education in municipalities such as this one, mainly rural. It also re-veals the importance to make a stand in the name of Rural Education.