A escola e o processo de construção da cidadania: significados e expectativas da população camponesa

Abstract

This essay is a result of a research that sought to study the building of citizenship, based on readings, with regard specially the rural population of Teresina, in Piauí State. It analyses the expectations and meanings expressed by country people about school. Some theorical categories, as well as other subjects, were used as analysis elements, so that they guaranteed the theorical-methodological composition in of the study. A rural community and its school make up the achievement context of the research, which analyses the performance of that institution in the rural and urban relation and tension as well, to make that process real. There is not an adaptation ofthe school to the community's peculiarities, as well as there is not an own community's educacional colletive and altemative project, which could be directed to its own needs. There is na acceptance of the formal educational proposal which is characterized as an urban culture and totally determined by the municipal educational system. In its fulfilmet of educational acting, the school doesn't know its social context, and it also doesn't care about a critical analysis ofthis very school patern, so that it could adapt itself, situation and project of life. At the end, some suggestions were pointed out, for the school and the community, that will help them build positively, as a matter offact and by rights, the "country citizenship" in that reality.