Formação continuada e implicações à prática educativa de professoras do programa Conhecer, Analisar e Transformar a educação do campo (CAT) em Lamarão/BA

Abstract

The ongoing training process experienced by teachers who participate in the CAT Program (Knowing, Analyzing and Transforming the Reality of the Countryside) is the theme of this study. The CAT is an extension program initiated in 1997 at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), developed in partnership with the Municipal Governments of 19 municipalities in Bahia and with the Community Organization Movement (MOC), which aims to offer ongoing training to teachers who work in rural schools, in order to promote contextualized education for the rural population. To this end, the general objective of the research was to understand the implications between the ongoing training offered by the CAT Program and the educational practice of teachers in rural schools of the Municipal Education Network of Lamarão/BA. The theoretical contribution dialogues with the perspective of training based on the reflexivity of educational practice, which seeks to focus the critical movement on practice, based on studies by Freire (1996); Dourado (2016); Gatti (2010); Imbernón (2010); Libâneo (2004); with the defense of a contextualized rural education focused on the needs of the rural population, based on Arroyo (2007); Molina; Nadal (2012), Caldart (2000; 2009; 2012), Santos; Ferreira (2018) Werlang; Pereira (2021), among others. Regarding the methodological foundations, the study, which is qualitative in nature, was developed with inspiration from collaborative research, as proposed by Ibiapina (2018), based on the perspective of dialogue and sharing. To produce data in partnership with the study's collaborating subjects, discussion groups were held, which are characterized as group conversation circles that aim to collectively reflect on educational practice in rural schools and the implications of CAT's ongoing training in the development of teaching work. The results of the research indicate that the continuing education offered by the CAT Program is essential in valuing rural populations and their way of life, as it is based on their specificities and rights, considering that the universalization of this knowledge contributes to strengthening the curriculum, educational practices and student subjects. However, it is necessary to observe the development of alternatives to involve not only teacher training, but also training for the community, as well as including the entire educational ecosystem in the perspective of training, a fact that involves the issue within the scope of CAT's public infrastructure, technical and administrative policies.