Está nas mãos de quem fechar escolas do campo, das águas e da floresta? Um olhar para a realidade da Amazônia Aveirense

Abstract

This investigative study aimed to describe the decision-making process for closing these schools in the views of the interviewed and analyzed subjects, within a critical perspective. The denial of educational rights suffered by rural populations in Brazil is a clear reality, especially in the municipality of Aveiro-PA. In the last 12 years, 63 rural, water and forest schools have been closed. This qualitative research had as its central theoretical support Freire (2000, 2001), Caldart (2011, 2012), Arroyo (2005, 2011), Hage (2005, 2014), Fernandes (2004, 2012) and Adorno (1995). For the gathering of information, documentary and field research were applied. In the field research, subjects who had a direct connection to the closing process of these schools were interviewed. As a result, this study identified that the decision to close rural, water and forest schools in the Amazon region of Aveiro is made vertically, without considering the impacts they cause on the lives of the population, nor what the current legislation provides.