A educação do campo em Caçapava do Sul: experiências que se produzem na historicidade

Abstract

This Master’s Thesis is linked to PPPG (Public Policy and Education Management Graduate Program) in the Pedagogical Management and Educational Contexts research line. This manuscript is inserted in the scope of the GEPE research group - Special Education and Inclusion Research and Studies Group, from the Federal University of Santa Maria. As a problem, the initial question is: How can stories of rural schools in Caçapava do Sul constitute clues for the collective construction of a rural education school in the present? Based on the concept of research craftsmanship (MILLS, 1976), documents, reports, minutes, texts, and interviews with teachers, parents, students, and employees were gathered, thus composing a mobilizing collection (material/resource made of interviews, images, documentation, and problematizations) of school communities’ participation. As a final product, a photo book of pictures, stories, and poetry, producing the historicity of those who compose/composed rural education in Caçapava do Sul. With this methodological movement, the general objective is sewn: To make visible some stories of rural schools in Caçapava do Sul starting from the aforementioned clues, between suspensions and documents, looking at the possibility of education in the present. The mobilizing material built from these clues and experiences (LARROSA, 2021), including the final product (photobook), can be used by the municipal education network as a study subsidy, in common, collectively, and with intention, for the construction of other ways of working the rural school model. Thus, in the collective between the municipal network, rural education teachers, and education managers, to design a rural education school for our time, including the production of a municipal public policy for rural schools, the organization of management and appreciation of such institutions in Caçapava do Sul.