Educação no/do campo no município de Caetité (BA): realidade e enfrentamento

Abstract

The research proposed to analyze the education in the field of the municipality of Caetité, Bahia, the school evasion, age-grade distortion verifying how the education can influence the student’s decision to stay or not in the countryside. For this, a brief retrospective of the history of education in Brazil was made, and it was based on the conception of education in the countryside, in its social and legal basis. For data collection, we used document analysis (LDB 9394/96, PNE, PEE, PME) to contextualize and characterize the countryside education. Through the dialogue with au thors who also discuss the theme, among them Caldart (2004), Fernandes (2004), Damasceno and Beserra (2004) and through the procedures adopted in the analysis of the documents, to work in the field, the first step is to recognize it as a space of cultural identity. That educational policies are more efficient, balancing the proposed and the executed, the official and the lived, especially regarding the valuation of the subject and his space.