“Venham conosco um sábado para ver...”: pensar com Paulo Freire a formação de professores e de professoras de Matemática em uma Licenciatura em Educação do Campo

Abstract

This article aims to think with Paulo Freire about the training of Mathematics teachers in Degrees in Rural Education. Even though Freirean concepts often do not appear directly expressed in the documents or practices linked to this training, we believe that our patron's thinking allows us to qualify the reading of these training processes, in a critical and reflective approach. To this end, we specifically discuss the Degree in Rural Education (Lecampo) course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), affirming and qualifying both the general principles of the course - the protagonism of subjects and their life-producing contexts; the training of teachers by area of knowledge; and the organization of times and spaces in alternation pedagogy - as well as specific processes of qualification in Mathematics along with Paulo Freire's pedagogical thought. The interpretations put forward are not restricted to rural contexts, but help us to tension ideas, discourses and practices linked to mathematics education and promoted in different contexts, including urban ones. What we intend, then, is to learn about mathematical education with the rural territories and communities, in diversity, movement and collectivity, in line with the invitation made by our patron: “Come with us one Saturday to see…”.