Pedagogy of Alternation in basic and professional education: achievements and challenges in 25 years of operation of the Network of Semi-Arid Integrated Family Schools (REFAISA)

This work, which is originally the result of a professional master's research, aims to analyze and systematize the achievements and challenges of the Family Farming Schools (EFA’s) linked to the Network of Integrated Farming Schools of the Semiarid (REFAISA). This network develops the pedagogy of alternation through basic education (elementary school II) and high school professional, having twenty-five years of experience in the Brazilian Semiarid (SAB). The methodological approach was based on qualitative research and action research mediated by participatory methodologies as tools for problematization and data collection from June 2017 to June 2018, with the subjects and social groups of Sobradinho's EFA's, Correntina, Macaúbas sprouts, Rio Real, Irará, Alagoinhas and Monte Santo, in the state of Bahia, and Ladeirinhas (Japoatã), state of Sergipe. Advances are evidenced in the formation of adolescents and young people in connection with the territories and their complexities, and in the promotion of Contextualized Education in Alternation with its pedagogical instruments that guide the integral formation of the subjects. In addition to the importance of networking through REFAISA, which has enabled the pedagogical advice and institutional policy of affiliated EFA's. The main challenge is the guarantee and maintenance of the public financing of the EFA's and their institutionality as public policy of the State and not of government