Trabalho infantil e educação do campo na região do baixo sul da Bahia (2007-2015)

Abstract

This research deals with the reality of students from Ilha do Galeão, in Cairu, and the countryside of Jequiriçá, in Valença, both in the State of Bahia. It investigates the factors that lead to child labor and it shows and discusses public policies for preventing child labor. Furthermore, it deals with the consequences of child labor for school life, bearing in mind that the teaching-learning process, along with a series of issues from in and outside school, represents an institutional school performance, which is measured by external assessment processes. The research also deals with the teaching methods adopted by schools in the aforementioned areas, aiming at social improvements in Countryside Education. During the research in the Down South of Bahia, from 2007 to 2015, some educators tried to improve school performance of children unfortunately involved with child labor, despite the critics to the external assessment.