Education for rural people: the formation of rural teachers and the Teacher Training Centers (1950 - 1963)

Abstract

I present some reflections about the formation offered to rural teachers in the teacher training centers and rural assistants training centers, based on the National Campaign for Rural Education - CNER, which advanced in Brazil between 1950 and 1963. I collate the discourse and the practices of formation and training of female teachers, evincing the political and ideological profile, whose main intention was to fix the rural population in the "healthy and productive land". Allied to the formation of lay teachers, under whose responsibility were most Brazilian schools, the main purpose of the training offered in training centers and in rural normal courses was to instruct teachers who would work in rural areas, in order to contribute to avoid the exodus of farmers and the flight of young and lively elements from the countryside to the cities.