Educação do campo no âmbito do Programa Escola Ativa: relações/implicações na formação continuada de professores(as) no município de Feira de Santana

Abstract

This research thematizes the Active School Program and was guided by the following question: What are the implications of the Active School Program in the organization and operation of the rural schools and its repercussion in the continuous training of teachers in the municipality of Feira de Santana? In dialogue with this question, the general objective was to analyze the implications of the Program in the organization and functioning of the rural schools and its repercussion in the training of teachers in the municipality. Two central categories were constituted as references of analyzes: education of the field and formation of teachers, especially the continuous formation. Field Education was assumed as a resistance movement to the relations of domination that emanate from the ruralist vision and, therefore, it emphasizes a conception of education that apprehends the relation between the social space and the directives that aim at the emancipation of the working class. From the conception of teacher training, we agree with Nóvoa (1992) when he states that the territory of formation is inhabited by individual and collective actors, in a human and social construction, in which the different stakeholders have autonomy in the conduct of their own projects. In this sense, we sought to explore their continuing education dimension, based on the idea of Rodrigues and Esteves (1993) when they point out that training is not exhausted in initial training and must be pursued throughout the career in a coherent and integrated way , responding to the felt training needs. The methodology adopted was of a qualitative nature, assumed by the understanding that this type of approach allows the analysis of the object investigated in its complexity and multiplicity of forms of manifestation, including the exploration of the interfaces between the objective and subjective dimensions that give them conformity in the tension between the prescribed and the effected in contexts and relations of dispute. The instruments selected to assist in data collection were documental research and semi-structured interviews. Through the data collected and the analysis developed, it was concluded that the obstacles to the implementation of a Public Education Policy in the Field are great, considering that the movements that make up this construction are sometimes discontinuous movements, marked by tensions and disputes between political forces. Regarding the Field Education policy in the municipality of Feira de Santana, there are no effective actions for its implementation. Regarding teacher training, it was observed that there was no training policy for teachers in the field in Feira de Santana, and that the actions carried out did not characterize the design of an own understanding of training by the network. The implementation of the Escola Activa Program in the municipality was inserted as part of the attempt of differentiated attention to the field, focusing on the multisite classes, but subordinated to the external orientations of the sectors that constituted themselves as managers of the Program. However, this in itself did not characterize the existence of a Field Education policy in the municipality.