NARRATIVES OF TEACHERS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MARAÚ - BAHIA: a study of the working conditions of teachers in the multigrade classes of rural schools
Teaching Working Conditions; Multiseriate Classes. Teacher Tactics. Field Education.
The present study aims to investigate the teaching work conditions of teachers of multigrade classes in rural schools in Maraú - Bahia, in order to understand the reasons that led them to teaching and rural schools, their teaching tactics and perceptions about professional development. Starting from the following problem: What are the working conditions of teachers of multigrade classes in rural schools in the municipality of Maraú - Bahia? How do these conditions influence work, teaching tactics and perceptions of professional development? In this perspective, I propose to research the teaching work conditions of teachers of the multigrade classes of schools in rural territories, with a view to highlighting the ways of doing, their forms of resistance and overcoming, confrontation of conflicts, learning processes, tactics undertaken and the complex situations experienced by these subjects. The research is being proposed in this Territory of identity Litoral Sul - Bahia, composed of 26 municipalities. Among these, I established some criteria for choosing, until I managed to find the one that has a singularity, namely: Maraú. This is the largest number of inhabitants in rural areas and territorial extension and the smallest in total population of this Territory and the largest number of multigrade classes From a qualitative approach, the techniques for collecting information will be a questionnaire to carry out the data collection, the interview narrative with the subject teachers of the research. For purposes of analysis, I will seek support in the comprehensive-interpretative analysis, organized into three stages: a) Stage I: Pre-analysis/cross-reading; b) Time II: Thematic reading - descriptive analysis units; c) Time III: Interpretive-comprehensive reading of the corpus. The multigrade classes are historically pointed out in Brazil as predominant in rural schools, with the North and Northeast regions having the highest incidence, where the state of Bahia has the highest number of multigrade classes. Thus, it is appropriate to carry out this research to make it possible to think about possible public policies and improvements aimed at the condition of teaching work in multigrade classes in rural schools.