CULTURAL CARTOGRAPH OF PAULO FREIRE STATE SCHOOL: Subjects, Tensions and Joints in Science Education
Rural education. Science teaching. Cultural subjects. Weaving.
This study entitled Cultural Cartography of Paulo Freire State School: Subjects, Tensions and Articulations in/of Science Education is the result of research carried out in a rural school, and its object was the teaching process of Paulo Freire School. The school is located on Antonio Conselheiro settlement (95 km) with adjoining rooms in the district of Nova Fernandópolis, 54 km far the headquarters of the municipality of Barra do Bugres. Its audience is characterized by students from family farming who are part of the MST or Small Farmers' Associations, or people who have had a life in the countryside, riverine residents on the banks of the Juba and Sepotuba rivers, and workers employed in surrounding farms. The general objective of this research was to understand the weaving and textures of the cultural fabric that constitutes the subjects that are part of the human scenario of Paulo Freire School and to reflect how their tensions articulate science teaching within the institution. . The questions that built the research problem were: Which social groups are present in power relations and teaching? Which cultural and / or identity tensions articulate with science teaching at school? Which textures and textures of the cultural plot constitute the school scenario? Whose service is this school / education? The search for answers to these questions provided the arrows in the way of understanding the articulation of teaching at school, allowing the cartography of cultural subjects and the reflection of relationships with differences. The methodology was a qualitative research of ethnographic nature based on participatory observation, the method of his life stories - MHV- using semi-structured questionnaires and observation of teaching practice, that was characterized as an important instrument for enabling the production of content provided directly by the subjects. The results obtained in this work allow a fruitful reflection on the importance of knowing cultural subjects and their tensions, and how and as a cultural plot by each thread they represent in the teaching of science and in the relations within the rural school. As is known, the encounter in place and space generates cultural conflicts, but they can be overcome when the subject knows himself and his culture and is built on respect for the other and their way of life and identity traditions.