This paper is a result of a research carried out in Breves, a town located in the south of the Marajo Island, in the state of Para, Brazil. It investigates the curricular planning of the riverbank agricultural school of the villages which the main economic activity is timber, called "Ivo Mainardi" of the municipal educational system of Breves, establishing a relationship with what praises of quality defined by the Operational Guidelines for the Basic Education in Schools located in the countryside, with focus on identities and knowledge of the riverbank agricultural Marajà Amazon. In the investigation method documentary analysis was used, the half structured interview and the photograph with the perspective to make possible to the reader a better understanding on the riverbank agricultural Amazon. The history of Breves has begun in the Colonial Period, with the arrival of the Portuguese to the place, its population is made of riverbank people, many of these inhabit in small communities, towns and villages which the main economic activity is timber. In these communities the education is promoted considering the demand of the company workersâ children who are attracted by the timber company job-offer and the school. Although they live in a context where the material production is related to the exploitation of timber, the school curriculum does not deal with this issue, they are from what is praised by the Operational Guidelines for the Basic Education in Schools located in the countryside, which establishes as quality principle the ecology and the sustainability. Besides this point the curricular planning, although it counts on the participation of the riverbank agricultural educators in its elaboration still does not express the knowledge, the culture, and the identity of the Marajo riverbank population of the Mainardi Village. Thus, the challenge placed to the managers, the social citizens and the educators is to see the commitment with an education that constructs and cultivates identities, values, collective
memory and heads towards the valuation and respect of the peoples that live in the Marajà agricultural and riverbank Amazon of Breves.
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