Childhood education from the countryside: reflections on the service in contexts of settlements

Abstract

This article focuses on the care of children in the context of settlements, highlighting the articulations between the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) and the Government in guaranteeing the right to Early Childhood Rural Education in a state located in the Southeast of Brazil. With a Bakhtinian theoretical-methodological framework, this article draws attention to data resulting from interviews with the municipal management, consolidated with statements from members of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers Education Sector, produced through conversation circles. The findings of its study indicate that the offer of Early Childhood Rural Education represents a community achievement, even having the service made through the setting up of rooms attached to the multi-grade elementary schools, underscoring the challenges in realizing the right to education of peasant children. In these challenges, questions arise, especially regarding the infrastructure of the institutions and the processes of articulation between the Movement of Landless Rural Workers and the Government, linked to the access and permanence of children in the Early Childhood Rural Education.

Keywords

• educação infantil do campo
• atendimento
• assentamentos