The closing of field schools in Brazil: from social totality to the materialization of neoliberal guidelines

Abstract

The school / field education must be destined to the formative process based on the construction of an education for all subjects and not only in favor of a class. Based on this conception, this text presents the results of a master's research and aims to reveal and critically understand the policy of closing rural schools in Brazil, through a historical process between achievements and setbacks of public policies for / in Field Education . The methodological ordering of the research was organized through the qualitative approach, with guidance in the method of Dialectical Historical Materialism, in which laws, resolutions, decrees, data published on websites and official institutions on rural education and the closing of rural schools in the country Brazil were analyzed and systematized. We conclude that the closure of schools in the countryside is based on a project of society by and for the ruling class, in which the State is complicit through its political arrangements. On the contrary, we defend a rural school based on a harmonious and fair relationship with Earth as a place of knowledge, production and human sociability.