Educação do Campo no Tocantins: repercussões para as famílias do Assentamento Vale do Barreiras em Juarina/TO

Abstract

Historically, the development model for the countryside adopted in Brazil prioritizes market logic and directs its interests towards meeting the demands of big capital, with emphasis on agribusiness. The education policies adopted for the rural population followed this logic. Although it is possible to observe advances in educational legislation in recent years, there are still gaps in terms of rural education. The objective of this research is to understand therepercussions of the current configuration of rural education policy in the state of Tocantins for the families of the Vale do Barreiras/Juarina Settlement - TO. Using bibliographic research as a research method, of a qualitative nature, it was possible to observe that the Rural School emerges as a counterpoint to traditional forms of education that for a long time disregarded the specificities and needs of rural populations. Although it represents an important gain for students living in the countryside, especially with the Pedagogy of Alternation, the rural school is still geographically distant from this population, as is the case of students from the Vale do Barreiras Settlement who need to travel to the municipality of Colinas do Tocantins, where there is the nearest Agricultural Family School - EFA Zé de Deus. In addition to the difficulties of distance, transportation, and fatigue that affect these students, they also face structural problems present in the Brazilian educational system, impacting the quality of teaching and making what is provided for in the educational legislation distance itself even further from the population that lives, works, and learns in the countryside.