Trajetória de um professor/educador: Roberto Faria, um intelectual transformador entre a prática docente e a prática política

Abstract

The research sought, through the path of Roberto Faria (1942-2011), to reflect on educational issues, especially on rural education in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, where Roberto chose to live and work. Convinced of his art-craft, he worked as a Mathematics teacher in the state education network of Rio de Janeiro, with more than 35 years in the classroom. The cut-off period comprises the year of the merger of the former states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro in 1975, when Roberto moved with his family to Freiburg until the defense of his doctoral thesis in 2010, the year before his death. The product of the research, now under way, gives visibility to this trajectory / life experience in the most significant aspects in relation to its performance in the educational project of the mountain region for the proposition of this work. For this, we use, in addition to updated bibliography on the subject, interviews with teachers, students and friends of the locality, projects for the rural school and intellectual productions of the educator. Among many achievements, we highlight his contribution to the Leopoldo Oscar Stutz State College, in Barra Alegre, in the countryside. In this institution, he managed with an untiring effort to expand the offer of education, raising it to the second level with the teacher training course. All of its production is permeated by criticisms of the education project in its articulation with neoliberal social policies, focusing on the priority pedagogical actions developed by public systems, aiming to identify the political culture that permeates educational actions