Rural Teacher Forming in face of “New/Old” Policies Implemented in Brazil: R-existence in debate

Abstract

The reflections presented in this article are part of the results produced by the research “Policies, Management and the Right to Higher Education: new modes of Regulation and trends under construction”, linked to the Universitas-Br Network, developed by Thematic Axis 7, whose research focuses on Rural Higher Education. The article provides analysis on teacher forming policies, focusing on the setbacks imposed on such policies, based on the approval of the “new” National Curriculum Guidelines for Initial Teacher Forming for Basic Education and the institution of the Common National Base for Education. Initial Forming of Teachers of Basic Education, especially in the field of the degree in Rural Education. The research method is anchored in historical and dialectical materialism through the categories of totality, historicity and mediation, in the field of teacher education policies in Brazil. Bibliographic studies of Resolutions No. 02/2015 and No. 02/2019 and the manifests of national scientific entities of teacher education were carried out. The results reveal dismantles and setbacks in the field of teacher forming policies, with the dissemination of skills pedagogy in the approval of Resolution No. 2/2019, which ignores the implementation of critical and emancipatory projects in the field of initial and continuing teacher forming. The Ministry of Education and the National Council of Education take measures to deconstruct policies aimed at rural, indigenous and quilombola subjects and threaten the continuity of the the degree in Rural Education Courses, which provokes a return to diverse and plural subjects in the guarantee of their rights.