Physics teaching for the countryside population of Tocantins: challenges and problems to be overcome

Abstract

The State of Tocantins is the newest State of the federation and was created with the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federative Republic in 1988. After 29 years of existence, it serves 408,322 students with 11% of these enrolled in educational institutions in the field. The objective of the present article is to present a detailed analysis of how the State rural school structure is found in the eight regions of Tocantins, focusing on the quantitative of students with access to Science education, specifically Physics. The study of this science is associated to the differentiated construction of world view and also to the development of the critical census, that is, representation, communication, investigation, understanding and socio-cultural contextualization. Methodologically the information dispersed in official documents was condensed, reorganized, plotted and described quantitatively. Comparing the total number of students in the state and the percentage of country students who are in the year in which physics classes are taught, it has been verified that there are 10 times more students studying this science in urban areas. The majority of the rural population does not have guaranteed access to the Physics teaching in the localities in which it resides, producing an unfavorable scenario.

Keywords

• Rural Education
• Physics
• Educational Structure