Educação do campo e acessibilidade: desafios e caminhos para a inclusão

Abstract

Education in rural areas faces unique challenges that reflect the particularities of rural areas and the diversity of the populations that live there. This work arises from an analysis of personal and family experience. Upon moving to the countryside, it became clear to me the social tendency to treat the rural population as inferior, highlighting inequalities and a reality of exclusion, a historically constructed view in which most rural inhabitants are seen as backward and outside the desired project of modernity. This aspect is further aggravated when we deal with special education in rural areas. I realized the need to analyze and understand the difficulties we face with the educational system we have had access to, perceiving the opportunity to seek possibilities to improve the barriers that my family faced in the educational process, barriers that are still present in the daily lives of many other rural families despite so many historical struggles to change this reality. Accessibility, in this context, is not limited to physical access to schools, but also encompasses issues of infrastructure, teaching resources, and teacher training—factors that interfere with the access and permanence of people with disabilities and learning difficulties in rural schools—so that, together with literature and legislation, possible paths can be envisioned to improve the inclusion of people with disabilities and learning difficulties in rural schools. This article explores, through lived experiences and based on literature researched in Scielo Brazil, these being empirical articles published in Brazil from 2020 to 2024, using the search keywords: Educationin the countryside, Brazilian schools, continuing education in the countryside, inclusion in the countryside, seeking to compare other experiences with the main challenges perceived in our reality in a municipality in the Alagoas hinterland from the last twenty years to the present day, and possible solutions to promote inclusive and quality education for rural students.