Educação Básica Ribeirinha: um estudo etnográfico na região amazônica

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the reality of the Municipal School named Nossa Senhora da Conceição in the Nossa Senhora da Conceição Community in the city of Parintins, Amazon State, considering its historical, social and cultural aspects. It presents as leading question: how is the reality of the Nossa Senhora da Conceição School and which is the meaning of this reality to the teachers and the students? The theoretical background was based on Vigotski, Freire, and Aguiar. The theoretical-methodological framework is centered in the Vigotski socio-historical psychology and in the Dialectical and Historical Materialism. The investigation adopted a qualitative approach as an ethnographic case study. The teachers, students and people from the Community were the subjects of the research. The data collection procedures included the participant observation of the school and the Community, non-structured interviews and the analysis of the bimonthly education plan documents. The historical, social and cultural aspects were analyzed regarding the relationship between man/nature. The community living provides to their components the experience of living and to live together with the dynamics of the Amazonian phenomenon, which are present in this peculiar environment. The results of this research show that the rivers floods phenomenon is an important factor which directly influences the development of the educational process. People from the community, students, and teachers interact with each other and with nature, allowing the construction of knowledge which helps to understand the reality and the empirical knowledge that determine the sociocultural process. The traditional knowledge that compose the riverside wisdom and that is present in the day by day of the community do not Interact with the formal knowledge what does not allow it to promote a social transformation of the subjects