A educação de pessoas jovens e adultas no campo: a experiência do SERTA – Serviço de Tecnologia Alternativa/Pernambuco

Abstract

Education is a right guaranteed to all Brazilian citizens by the 1988 Constitution, but it is still possible to see high rates of illiteracy, especially among the older population. These rates become even more challenging in the rural context, where there is a greater dropout rate due to the need to work. The man and woman of the countryside find themselves, in many cases, in the position of destroying the school to help support the family, working mainly in agriculture. This issue of the population demands requests for education, where priority is given to valuing their struggles and cultural cultures in the countryside. Rural Education emerges as an alternative to attend these social people. These, many times, are attended by several projects, institutions and schools that happen to value what they do. Among them we have SERTA - Alternative Technology Service, located in the State of Pernambuco. In this sense, the main objective of this article is to present an account of the experience carried out by SERTA as a possibility of feeling, thinking and acting around the education of young people and adults in the countryside. Regarding the methodological process, we opted for research of a qualitative-interpretative nature, making use of bibliographic sources for the elaboration of the theoretical framework, supported by the methodology of the area, as through the presentation of the experience in the classroom. The political proposal presented by SERTA, focusing on the construction of an autonomy of the field process is importance, ethical and formative, valuing knowledge.