Educação do/no campo: uma análise sobre educação no campo em uma escola do município de Água Branca - AL

Abstract

This course conclusion work seeks to reflect on the education of/in the field and the teaching of Geography at the Alice Oliveira Santos Municipal School of Basic Education, located in the Alto dos Coelhos District (Água Branca – AL). Data collection happened between 2020 and 2021 took place through questionnaires made with students and teachers of the 5th and 6th year of elementary school at this school and based on the analysis of geography books adopted at the school. Through a theoretical path in which we discuss from the agrarian issue in Brazil to what is the education of/in the countryside as opposed to rural education, as well as a trace of the history of the Alto dos Coelhos community and, finally, the aforementioned analyses. From the questionnaires and textbooks, we realized the need to establish an education of/in the countryside, which places the subjects who live in the countryside at the center of their concerns, with the objective of forming critical citizens, attentive to their own reality and to the reality of the place where they live. To build this itinerary, we relied on authors such as Caldart (2005), Stedile (2011), Oliveira (2001), Nascimento and Bicalho (2019), Costa and Cabral (2016), Couto (2010), Callai (2005), between others.