RURAL EDUCATION IN THE AMAZONIAN AMAZON AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF RURAL WORKERS

Abstract

The article presents the results of a research on rural education in the Amazon and highlights the understanding of rural workers from union organizations operating in Amazonian cities, forest spaces and riverside communities. This is an excerpt from the master's research in education. The objective is to analyze rural education, its problems, experiences and specificities in Amazonian municipalities from the perspective of the Federation of Agricultural Workers and the Unions of Rural Workers. The research methodology included bibliographic and documentary surveys and fieldwork. Rural education was investigated based on the educational and sociocultural experiences of men and women who experience the local reality, its problems and its specificities. Education is problematized from the Amazonian reality in the spaces of the countryside, forests and waters. The research showed that public policies for rural education must be able to contemplate the knowledge, cultures and education of the Amazonian peoples as a way of valuing cultural diversity and identity processes. The study shows the process of understanding union organizations and their participation in the construction of public policies aimed at the local reality. It was found that the idea of field in the Amazonian Amazon is expanded in the dynamics of the various forms of organization of Amazonian life, which implies the recognition of different subjects and the appreciation of their knowledge and cultures. Rural education policies present significant elements and practices in this direction.