secondary education and educational policies in the Amazon

the voices of riverside subjects.

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from my master's dissertation research and its aim is to reflect on public educational policies aimed at the high school stage offered in the riverside territory in the municipality of Cametá, in the state of Pará. To this end, the relationship between the state and public policies in the context of capitalist society and its contribution/influence in guaranteeing quality education in the very territory where the subjects of the Brazilian countryside live, in this case, in the riverside Amazon, was problematized. Dialectical historical materialism (Marx, 2008) underpinned the analysis because it recognizes that its categories are fundamental to understanding how social-historical relations structure the materiality of the educational process in the singularity of the Amazon. In this way, the research reveals that, by means of the capitalist political stance that the state takes towards society and its social demands, the current political proposals are not firmly established in offering and maintaining an educational process as a fundamental right, visualized in a high school that has still experienced times of institutional precariousness, either in the absence of spaces and/or in the inefficiency of the school transport policy for the riverside countryside, which compromises the access and permanence of students to the last stage of basic education.