Rural education, progressive education movement and educational policy: the experience of the escola ativa program

• Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Márcio Adriano de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Queiroz, Maria Aparecida de, Souza, Francisco das Chagas Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Roteiro (Joaçaba. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unoesc.edu.br/roteiro/article/view/28138
• topic: Educação do campo; Escola Nova; Política educacional; Programa Escola Ativa; Rural Education; Progressive Education movement; Educational policies; Escola Ativa program; educación rural; nueva escuela; políticas educativas; Programa de Escuela Activa

The article presented is a partial result from an academic research at the doctoral level, financed by CNPq, and aims to understand the influence of the Nova Escola (Progressive Education) movement in government initiatives for rural education, in particular, the Escola Ativa Program. We opted for theoretical and methodological procedures such as literature review, documentary analysis, observation, and field notes. In Progressive Education pedagogical conception, two influences stand out: methodological and doctrinal currents, which inspired several educational programs and projects worldwide, including government actions towards rural schools placed in Brazil, such as the Escola Ativa Program implemented in the 1990s to attend rural schools, aiming to fill the methodological gaps for didactic-pedagogical work at schools with multigrade classes. The research results show that the program had occurred for more than 20 years as a specific initiative for schools with multigrade classes. However, the Escola Ativa Program was abolished in 2011 under the argument it would be replaced by the Escola da Terra Program. The extinction of the Program without a prior evaluation of the policy that was conceived ended up following the perverse cycle of education policies in Brazil, where programs and projects have become ceased or extinct, mainly when government transitions occur.