Escolas de ensino médio do campo no estado do Ceará: Mandalla como experiência de integração

Abstract

Integrated production Mandalla is one of the actions of the Ceara state government that is highlighted, to strengthen and increase alternative income generation in family farming, generating economic development and career opportunities, providing social integration and sustainable coexistence with the environment. Given these possibilities five high schools of the field, located in agrarian reform settlement areas, saw this initiative the possibility of enabling the recovery of human dignity, by improving the quality of life, economic productivity and environmental balance, employing appropriate and cost-effective technologies that promote food autossustentação of family farmers in the communities where these schools were built. Because it is a descriptive research, the study sought to identify what changes in the construction process and implementation of this new proposed field of education in these five schools, through the work developed in Mandalla Integrated Production. To this end, there was literature surveys, experiences the field, conducting informal interviews and research of primary and secondary data. The results were that the processes encouraged by the implementation of Mandalla triggered the development of sustainable projects for schools and communities that can be allied to existing production processes in order to strengthen more and more the school and community. It concluded that the Rural Schools play an important socio-cultural role in the routine of the communities where they operate, since they are instruments that favor the strengthening and recovery of the culture and identity of the subjects, serving as a link between generations and the work in Mandalla , students, parents of students and the community as a whole could see a successful experience of agricultural production in semi-arid, making rational use of natural resources.