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Lake Cuniã's offspring: school education in an amazonian extractive reserve

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Author(s):
Diógenes Valdanha Neto
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Araraquara. 2015-03-03.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara
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Advisor: Dulce Consuelo Andreatta Whitaker; Valéria Oliveira de Vasconcelos
Abstract

Initiatives in educational and environmental policies have been worrying about the importance of schooling respect the context in which they are located, as well as the students’ ways of life. In this sense, a qualitative – ethnographic – research in Education, was held in the Extractive Reserve (RESEX) Lake Cuniã, located in the State of Rondônia - Brazilian Amazon. The main goal was to enhance the knowledge about the community’s traditional culture and the forms that the local school appropriated of it. All research is permeated by the concepts of culture in Geertz, and ideology in Marx and Engels, which, associated with reflections of Popular Education, form the basis of the analytical theoretical framework. Field researches were carried out during 55 days in total. The first part of the field research was configured as a school study under a dialectical perspective, having been directed to the exterior spaces of the school, and held in the month of July 2012. At this stage, direct observations of daily life of local residents were made and registered in a field diary, in addition to seven interviews conducted with locals (three adults and four youngsters) on the theme of school education. Data were organized by Generating Themes, these being: labour, gender relations, beliefs and identity, environment, health, and finally the school from outside. The school from outside is verbalized as the gateway to the world of paid work – which is presented ideologically as the only possibility for a better life, thus you can be someone in life. The remaining Generating Themes also bring elements to an educational discussion. Besides, it is evident the ambiguities surrounding the understanding and meaning attributed to the alternating model adopted, which is designed as a strategy to deal with a historical teacher shortage in the community. The second field research was develope... (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/18926-4 - Educative Forest: schools in forests dialoging with traditional cultures
Grantee:Diógenes Valdanha Neto
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master