The impacts of closing campo schools in pernambuco

Abstract

The education policy for peoples living in the countryside has historically been relegated to specific programs and without much attention from public administrators. Even with some achievements achieved through the agendas brought by rural social movements to the national political scene, the scrapping of schools and the closing of many across Brazil was not avoided. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to understand the phenomenon of the closing of rural schools in Pernambuco, the result of the research project of the Institutional Program for Scientific and Voluntary Initiation Scholarships (PIC/UFRPE) developed between  2018  and  2019.  A  diagnosis was made.  of the number of existing schools in the countryside, considering kindergarten to elementary school,  from the years  2010  and  2017,  carried out through the Statistical Synopsis of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), where a decrease of establishments and /or field teaching enrollments in the Mata Norte and Sul regions of Pernambuco. Therefore, it is possible to visualize the negligence of the public power towards the subjects who build the geographical-cultural space of the countryside in Pernambuco, through the annulment of the right to quality basic education, in addition to directly interfering in the socioeconomic organization of the family.