Cortando a cerca: uma escola do campo frente à multiculturalidade contemporânea

• Autor(a) principal: Valentini, Lydia Maria Assis Brasil
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Jefferson Marçal
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/6188
• topic: Cultural Plurality; Rural School; Plural Education; Inclusion; Pluralidade Cultural; Escola Rural; Educação Plural; Inclusão

The Brazilian educational system has had, since the 1988’s Constitution, the purpose of living in ademocratic and plural society. Thus, it has as its main aim to recognize its diversity and culturalrichness, searching for the necessary conditions to avoid all kinds of discrimination. It is in theschool -exercised as a public dominium- that Brazilians first get confronted with the difference. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the inclusion of the Theme Transversality CulturalPlurality (parts of the National Curricular Parameter) is done. The school observed is located in thecountryside of São Gabriel/RS County and most of its students are the children of the so calledSem Terra (landless people movement, known as MST). The research was based on bibliographicalresearch, observation on pedagogical practice, research, documental analyses and interviews. Theanalyses of the data showed the necessity of an effective approach between public policiesexecution and the reality of the local pedagogical practices. So that the school can be a permanentunifying element which not only recognizes and values the diversity as an inseparable part of thestudent’s identity and its life trajectories, but is also able to overcome discrimination.