Classe multisseriada : uma análise a partir de escolas do campo do município de Coronel João Sá/BA

Abstract

This research had as its main purpose of investigation the multiple-grades classes, a type of school organization mainly found in schools located in Brazilian countryside, where they are centered in the same schooling time and space, students from different grades (and ages) and, most of the cases, under the teaching of the same teacher. The question which originated this research was built through empirical experiences, and the data taken from the reality and theoretical readings on Countryside Education. In this sense, what is the reality of multiple-grades classes, concerning teachers training and working conditions during the initial grades of countryside Elementary School in Coronel João Sá/BA? The general objective of the research was to analyse the multiple-grades classes regarding teachers training and working conditions in that educational context. Moreover, we constructed the research through the discussion in relation to the agrarian question, education and countryside school in Brazil; identification and discussion on the formation of teachers who teach in multiple-grades classes and the verification of teachers working conditions through the structural and didactic-pedagogical characterization of schools with multiple-grades classes. The qualitative theoretical-methodological approach was adopted in this research, in order to be circumscribed in dialectical historical materialism. The research sample was formed by six schools and fifty-three teachers. Regarding the instruments of data gathering, we used the questionnaire, the interview, the documental analysis and observation. Through the data and the analyses performed, we considered that teachers are not especially trained to teach as well as they work in substandard conditions, what confirms, therefore, the research hypothesis that the State neglects the education in countryside schools, particularly in this organizational way of teaching, when it comes to those teachers training and working conditions.