Educação do campo e juventude na comunidade de Belo Monte, Novo Repartimento, PA

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of data collected in research carried out with young people from schools inserted in a rural context, in the Belo Monte Community, municipality of Novo Repartimento, PA. The research had as its guiding themes work, youth and education in the rural context. This research aimed to analyze the education offered in the Community, with the prism of education as an instrument of human emancipation in the socio-historical context, of work and youth existing in the community. The methodological procedures adopted for the purposes of data collection, survey of the community's history from the life history methodology, documentary analysis and survey of school data, and two methodological interventions, the first in elementary school that aimed to understand the school and (des )school interest and the second in high school that aimed to understand the profile of the school's youth and their insertion in the world of work. The Belo Monte community is a community of peasants that initially had a high agrobiodiversity, thus guaranteeing their food security, however with the process of cattle raising, currently families are in a situation of food insecurity. The lots no longer guarantee the families' permanence and the school becomes an exit door for the community. The school is not capable of problematizing the socio-cultural and historical context of the community and at the same time subtly introduces the logic of capitalist production that is based on individual and meritocratic growth.