A educação escolar durante a guerra civil em Catuane - Matutuíne (1984-1992)

Abstract

In the period before Mozambique's independence, school education was characterized by its discriminatory nature towards Africans. After independence in 1975, there was an educational evolution in terms of the school network and access to education, replacement of Portuguese curricula by Mozambican ones, and an attempt to qualitatively train teachers and improve educational quality. With the civil war installed in Mozambique in the 80s, this educational evolution suffered a setback, with the number of school establishments and school staff reduced substantially, the illiteracy rate increased, and the improvement of the educational quality that was intended ran into constraints. The locality of Catuane, which in the period between 1975-1984 had seen a growth in educational terms in terms of the school network and school staff, from 1984 onwards, the year of the outbreak of the civil war in Catuane, faced serious difficulties. Formal schools ceased to exist and teaching became a place of refuge that was in the bush, the number of students, teachers reduced drastically and the material conditions for the implementation of this teaching were chaotic. The educational quality of Primary Education (EP1) was compromised, school dropout was a rule, teaching programs were not followed and the number of students who successfully graduated or completed the 4th grade was greatly reduced. The present study seeks to characterize, analyze and evaluate the educational process during the war in Mozambique, in general in the district of Matutuíne and in particular in the locality of Catuane. Bearing in mind that the war brings a civil defense effort, it seeks to identify forms of relationship that the war brought to the community and the school(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)