A educação do campo na secretaria municipal de educação: o caso do município de São Gabriel/RS

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify the challenges and possibilities of the School Sector Coordination Sector (Field Education) within the context of the São Gabriel/RS Municipal Education Department. Field Education is in the process of being consolidated as a teaching modality and educational policies, being developed in the country's educational institutions. In the delimitation of this research, in the case of the municipality of São Gabriel/RS, the work advances to approximately 600 students, in 8 Schools of the Field, offering the stages of Early Childhood Education to Elementary School. The methodology used was a case study, with documentary research in sectors of the public administration and with semi-structured interviews, with servers and secretarial staff, as well as with the directors of the educational institutions of the field, seeking the collection and after systematization of the information relevant to meet the proposed objectives. As a result, we identified the organization and functioning of the Municipal Education Department, specifying the positions and sectors as well as the responsibilities of each one, delimiting it in the administrative sphere (Executive Branch) of the municipality of São Gabriel/RS. In addition, it specified/delimited the possibilities and challenges of the Sector of Coordination of the Schools of the Field, exposing the details/difficulties of the work of management and the actions/projects developed (2017/2018). At the end, proposals were presented for work in the field sector, which remain as suggestions for other realities of Field Education Management.