Training plan, literacy, and educational practices in the pedagogy of alternation

Abstract

With interest in expanding research focusing on educational practices in rural education, the purpose of this paper is to analyze and understand the process of devising and implementing a training plan in the didactic-pedagogical activities of the Agricultural Family School Ze de Deus (AFSZD), located in the municipality of Colinas do Tocantins, state of Tocantins. This plan integrates the educational system of pedagogy of alternation (PA) and is implemented in schools that utilize this pedagogy. The research is ethnographic and has a qualitative-interpretative approach to data analysis. The data were generated in 2014 and consist of excerpts (transcripts) of an interview, photographic records of practical activities of study, and meeting at school, training plan for the year 2014, excerpts from the political-pedagogical project of the rural school, and copies of the genre notebook of reality produced by two students who cooperated with the study. The research results have revealed that devising the training plan at AFSZD involved the community and took into account the local reality of students, families, and peasant communities. Therefore, by executing the generating themes of the study plans listed in the training plan, there is an effective dialogue in the PA with a curriculum that best aligns with the reality of the rural environment, since such themes are directly linked to the activities and socio-professional reality of the young peasants.