Um rio no caminho: processos de escolarização de alunos ribeirinhos em contexto escolar urbano

Abstract

The dissertation presents the specificities of the research entitled “A RIVER ON THE WAY: schooling processes of riverine students in an urban school context”, linked to the Graduate Program in Education - PPGED/ICED/UFPA. The objective of this study was to understand the schooling process of the riverine students who study in schools located in the urban area of Belém. Methodologically, the research was based on a qualitative approach, being supported by some technical elements of the ethnographic research. In the first moment, a bibliographical search was made on the main categories of the subject under discussion (riverine people, education, culture and identity), as well as on the viable theoretical-methodological resources to be used. Initially, a verification in the digital databases of the PPGED/CCSE/UEPA and PPGED/ICED/UFPA was also carried out, searching for dissertations and theses that would underpin the understanding about how the Riverine Education has been academically addressed in the context of Pará and Amazon. The data collection was based on field observation, understanding the schools’ PPPs, and interviews made with students, teachers and pedagogical coordinators from two state schools. The study originated from the question “How does the schooling process of the riverine students in urban schools occur?”, and the results that emerged from it consist of the numerous difficulties faced by these students in order to have access to formal education, as well as the need for their living realities to be better known, understood and valued by the schools where they are inserted, which should subsidize the accomplishment of a systematized work focused on their educational successes in all aspects and singularities. Therefore, it can be stated that the dissertation reveals important approaches on the schooling of riverine students, making itself as an instrument of research and reflection to those who dedicate themselves to or are interested in the subject.