Schooling, professionalism and development in the rural school: the case of ex-students from the CEPE in the Island of Cotijuba, Belém, Pará

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the socioeconomic and educational development of students enrolled in the House School of Fisheries (CEPE), a full-time municipal public rural school in the Youth and Adult Education modality, with professional qualification in the fishing area, corresponding to Elementare School and Hight School levels. The current reality of ex-students living on the island of Cotijuba, Belem, Para, who completed basic training in the year 2015 was taken as an empirical reference. Methodologically, this work is based on qualitative field research, with collection of documents, application of questionnaires, interviews and local observations. It’s concluded that the material conditions of the interviewees, coupled with the absence of day by day relations in organizational contexts, negatively affect the socioeconomic and educational development of the CEPE graduates, which would imply that the school had the associativism as an educational principle.

Keywords

• House School of Fisheries
• Rural School
• Development
• Ex-Students