The dissertation presents the specificities of the research entitled “A RIVER ON THE
WAY: schooling processes of riverine students in an urban school context”, linked to
the Graduate Program in Education - PPGED/ICED/UFPA. The objective of this study
was to understand the schooling process of the riverine students who study in schools
located in the urban area of Belém. Methodologically, the research was based on a
qualitative approach, being supported by some technical elements of the ethnographic
research. In the first moment, a bibliographical search was made on the main
categories of the subject under discussion (riverine people, education, culture and
identity), as well as on the viable theoretical-methodological resources to be used.
Initially, a verification in the digital databases of the PPGED/CCSE/UEPA and
PPGED/ICED/UFPA was also carried out, searching for dissertations and theses that
would underpin the understanding about how the Riverine Education has been
academically addressed in the context of Pará and Amazon. The data collection was
based on field observation, understanding the schools’ PPPs, and interviews made
with students, teachers and pedagogical coordinators from two state schools. The
study originated from the question “How does the schooling process of the riverine
students in urban schools occur?”, and the results that emerged from it consist of the
numerous difficulties faced by these students in order to have access to formal
education, as well as the need for their living realities to be better known, understood
and valued by the schools where they are inserted, which should subsidize the
accomplishment of a systematized work focused on their educational successes in all
aspects and singularities. Therefore, it can be stated that the dissertation reveals
important approaches on the schooling of riverine students, making itself as an
instrument of research and reflection to those who dedicate themselves to or are
interested in the subject.
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