O que se sabe e o que se faz sobre a educação no contexto dos assentamentos rurais – colocando gás na lamparina...

Abstract

This paper discusses the practice of an action-research done in the land settlements schools' of Ceará. This contributes to the understanding of the identity of the rural areas and to the kind of education they require. Looking at the school in the context of their cultural richeness and technological weekness, one identify the lack oi political background that is needed to the practice of counscious and integrated possibilities of a generation that transfers to the school, responsabilities and desires towards a new institutional and democratic knowledge and power. The complexity of the school hides a "silent" move of these actors who are resistent, trying to build a new knowledge, to preserve people's values and culture in the search of a truly rural school.