School and alternance in the Gerais area in Minas Gerais

the trajectory of Tabocal Agricultural Family School - São Francisco, MG, Brazil

Abstract

This paper seeks to uncover the trajectory of the Tabocal Agricultural Family School (EFA-Tabocal), located in the Primavera Community in the city of São Francisco - Minas Gerais - Brazil. For the purpose of analysis, ethnographic research methodology was chosen. Therefore, it was necessary to have an understandment of what the subjects involved in the educational process of EFA-Tabocal would have to say about the school. By selecting the Pedagogy of Alternation, EFA-Tabocal materializes not only a counter-hegemonic project of education, but a project full of life and hope for those involved in the formative processes. EFA-Tabocal's trajectory resembles that of other schools that endow alternation, however, the specificities of the Minas Gerais State and its subjects change and individualize its history, presenting peculiar characteristics. The trajectory of the EFA-Tabocal accords to the the life story of the involved with the school. Thus EFA-Tabocal is not just a school project that adopts the Alternance Pedagogy like other EFA's, as it presents a life project that is marked by water, land scarcity, struggle, resistance, resilience, and the milieu.