O currículo e as práticas pedagógicas (des)contextualizadas da escola no campo semiárido paraibano

Abstract

The countryside education in the semiarid context has been a proposal that is often quite far from the sociocultural reality of the region where the school and the social subjects are inserted in. Under this assumption, This work aims at studying the school curriculum taking into consideration the referred context. In particular, it aims to discuss the school curriculum in the rural area of Juazeirinho in order to realize if it develops an educational action based on the perspective of a contextualized curriculum that is adapted to the local social reality and the educational policies. To substantiate the reflections upon the investigated reality and the proposal of a contextualized curriculum for the countryside school, we based on the studies of Fernandes e Molina (2004), Freire (2014, 2015), Menezes e Araújo (2007), Moreira e Tadeu (2013), Reis (2010, 2011), Silva (2015), Stedile (2012), among other scholars who discuss the studied theme. For this purpose, we select as theoretical methodological contribution the qualitative approach, researchaction type, adapted to a bibliographic research. The locus research was the Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Antônio Carlos de Morais that is located in the Sítio Grande, rural area of Juazeirinho, State of Paraíba. Six teachers were the investigation subjects and we used as instruments for data collecting, the application of an open questionnaire, the analysis of official documents that regulate the educational policies of countryside education and the textbooks used by the research participants as well as their observations. The results revealed that the teachers do not develop pedagogic practices that consider the semiarid context since the institution does have a curricular proposal that takes into account the students’ reality, therefore, the selection criteria of the contents is done according to the textbook’s summary, thus making the learning disconnected from the reality of the subjects and the countryside school. In conclusion, The contextualized curriculum that we propose in this study considers the context, culture and the history of the subjects from semiarid so that they can intervene in the reality from a transforming reinvention perspective.