The work consists of an investigation carried out in the years of 2010 and 2011, about
the existing municipal public policies and/or policies being implemented in public
schools located in rural areas of Dianópolis city, Tocantins State, which organization is
multisseriate. The analysis started from the retrospective of education in the context of
human rights and then describes a brief history of public schools’ establishment in
global and national levels. Rural education was offered initially for economic reasons,
not to socialize the knowledge to residents of that area. The multisseriate classes are set
as school organization adopted for the assistance to localities with low population
density. However, the infrastructural aspects of these schools, teacher training and
curriculum demand discussion and actions organized by the agencies responsible for
providing public education, Nevertheless, only at the end of the last decade of the
twentieth century, the education field as a category of analysis has been addressed in
discussions nationwide, especially through the movement for a Rural Education, which
fostered the development of important documents, such as the Operational Guidelines
for Basic Education in Schools Field, 2002. The approach used in the study was based
on qualitative nature with some quantitative data under the reasoning of authors such as:
ARROYO (2003), FERNANDES (2002), LUDKE; ANDRÉ (1986), MINAYO (1994),
MOREIRA (2000), NASCIMENTO (2003), SEVERINO (2007), THIOLLENT (2005),
TRIVIÑOS (2011), among others. The technique used was analysis of data
triangulation, and the data collection instruments used were, for instance: records of
observations made in schools, educational meetings and continuing education meetings,
questionnaires and structured interviews conducted with research subjects - teachers,
students, responsible for pupils in multisseriate classes; employees of Municipal
Education Dianópolis-Tocantins (SEMED), and the President of the Rural Workers
Union of Dianópolis-Tocantins. In this municipality, the discussion of education in the
field dates to the year 2008, and concerning the multisseriate classes, we can mention an
achievement: the deployment of specific continuing education for teachers in these
classrooms. However, there are still many demands on schools regarding this
organization, especially in relation to the conditions of physical structure and
development of the educational proposal, which is a requirement for the development of
teaching. Regarding to continuing education, an organization of municipal management
is needed in order to enable the participation of teachers in the meetings held in the
town. Despite the obstacles, the multisseriate classes constitute one the possibilities of
school organization in the countryside and therefore require the development and
implementation of public policies in order to enable teaching, learning and sustainable
development.
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