S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The state of Para\u00edba, in Northeast Brazil, should have a specialisation course on living in the semiarid starting next year. The weather, characterised by low humidity and scarce rains, is common to most northeastern states. Thus, last week, educational leaders from the region submitted a proposal for a course, entitled \u201cContextualised Education for Living in the Semiarid\u201d to the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG).<\/p>\n
The course is an effort of the National Institute of the Semiarid (Insa) in partnership with the Brazilian Semiarid Education Network (Resab), the latter of which comprises educators who work in the Brazilian semiarid. The specialisation should target elementary school teachers at public schools, according to Silvio Rossi, a professor at the university and the coordinator of the group that elaborated the project. The workgroup was formed in March this year, after a workshop that brought together educational sector representatives from the region.<\/p>\n
There has been no official reply from the UFCG regarding the implementation of the course yet, but Rossi believes it should be approved shortly, as the university has overseen the project\u2019s elaboration and many of the professors involved work there. The goal is for the specialisation course to be made available starting next year. In March 2010, a class for 40 people should open in the municipality of Sum\u00e9, in the region of Cariri da Para\u00edba, and July should see the opening of another class, with the same number of students, in the municipality of Cajazeiros, in the Alto Sert\u00e3o da Para\u00edba region.<\/p>\n
According to Rossi, the class in Sum\u00e9 may be attended by teachers from the state of Pernambuco, because the region is located near the border between the states of Para\u00edba and Pernambuco, and the class in Cajazeiras may be attended by educators from the states of Cear\u00e1 and Rio Grande do Norte. The specialisation course should prepare teachers to give lessons within the context of the semiarid. Rossi explains that the goal of the course is not to alter the contents of elementary education, but rather to teach them to develop the contents while taking the local reality of the children into account.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that in the future, when they get to an university, these students will be able to contribute more effectively to the valuing and discovery of new potentialities in the region,\u201d explains Rossi. The aim is to apply the project to other states in the Northeast as well, in order to spawn similar efforts. According to Rossi, conversations to that end are already underway, with the Secretariat of Education of the State of Cear\u00e1.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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