2017-06-012017-06-012016-03-14RODRIGUES, João Marcelino Pantoja. No espelho do rio o que reflete e o que “SOME”? : O Sistema de Organização Modular de Ensino (SOME) na ótica de jovens egressos no município de Breves – Pará. 2016. 137 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências da Educação, Belém, 2016. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/8585This paper analyzes, through perceptions of high school graduates, the contributions and limitations of Modular Teaching Organization System (MTOS) in educational training of youth in rural areas of the municipality of Breves - Para, in regards to the needs and expectations of its young population. The research, anchored on a qualitative basis, had the locus on Mainardi village, a pioneer community in accepting MTOS in the region. As the primary data collection semi-structured interviews were used and data was treated in the light of the thematic content analysis. The results that came from the field research were faced with the contribution raised in discussions around the central theoretical axis of research, namely: Modular Teaching Organization System, High School, Youth (and, in particular, rural youth) and Rural Education. The epistemological reference for the research was sought in the assumptions of historical and dialectical materialism, especially the categories of contradiction, totality and historicity of believing that such references allow an analysis which exceeds the mere descriptive statement of the facts and into the web of relationships that make the object of study manifest in a certain way, within the historic conditionalities in which it creates its essence. Thus, the developments of the investigative effort carried out with this design pointed central limitations of MTOS, among them: the failure of the school calendar; the difficulty of ensuring the permanence of the student in high school; the feeling of exclusion triggered by factors relating to, for example, the infrastructural weaknesses and the organization of the system; the inadequacy of the system with regards to the reality of the rural youth; the inadequacy of the educational and administrative monitoring. These limitations reveal that MTOS plays the dualism that historically is within high school, when transplanting piecemeal to the country a city model of teaching, without seeking to address the specificities of the local and the public to whom it is intended, featuring a lack of its own pedagogical identity. On the other hand, while showing the mismatch of a MTOS-ian experience regarding training needs and expectations of rural youth on the high school, the contradictions of reality studied brought about elements that pointed to the necessity of the important MTOS contribution as the only viable alternative access to secondary education for a large portion of this audience, revealing an inclusive dimension of the system even in the midst of the fragility with which it is implemented, which is evidenced, for example, with the ever increasing admission in higher education, of the youth from the modular system of education, opening to them new perspectives of education and social inclusion, that without MTOS would hardly be able to come about.Acesso AbertoEducação ruralEducação e EstadoEnsino médioJuventude ruralSistema de Organização Modular de Ensino (SOME)Pará . Secretária de EducaçãoBreves - PAPará - EstadoDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAO::EDUCACAO RURAL