IN FLOOD AN FLOODPLAIN: THE SCHOOL IN FLOODPLAIN THE AMAZON (2010-2022)
Education in the Amazon; floodplain schools; nucleation.
This research deals with school education in an educational center composed of schools located in the floodplain of the municipality of Óbidos-PA, in the west of Pará. The general objective of the study was to analyze how floodplain schools organize themselves materially and pedagogically in the face of changes resulting from periods of flood and low water. The 2010-2022 time frame of the study began from the beginning of the organization by hub in the municipality and extends to 2022 to thus encompass fundamental problems that impacted Brazilian schools, especially in the countryside – the nefarious government of Jair Bolsonaro and the Covid-19 Pandemic. The sources used for the study were bibliographic and documentary, from platforms for surveying sources on the material reality of schools such as QEdu – Educational Data; LDE/UFPR Educational Data Laboratory, as well as public portals: IBGE Cidades, Óbidos city hall website, in addition to data made available by the Municipal Education Department - SEMED and the Municipal Education Council. Given a set of sources beyond legislation and, with a view to having an expanded view of the process (CASTANHA, 2011), we
took the case study method expanded from Burawoy (2014) as a technique, due to our
experience in the field of study, which brought an ethnographic highlight, for reasons of
insertion of the researcher as a participant in realitylocusof the research. The cyclical changes that occur in the floodplain environment reflect on the school reality, as differentiated measures are necessary to face the problems caused by the flood and ebb of the Amazon River. Furthermore, the entire municipal network that offers school education to serve rural populations is based on nucleated schools. The results indicate a trend in the nucleation policy that contributes to the closure of schools in the municipality, a fact that is closely related to what occurs in other Brazilian realities, has links with neoliberal policies in education, which make schools and teachers' work precarious. and seek to reduce the importance of school, of school content in human development, especially of the working class in the countryside.