Abstract
This article is grounded in the readings on Science - Technology - Society (STS) in education, Freirean ideas, curriculum, and Rural Education. As the main purpose, we intend to show confluences and similarities between these themes and their contributions to pedagogical practices in Rural Education. In addition to these readings, we searched into the Capes Journals Portal, Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) and the Online Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO), in order to find the associated presence of themes in academic works, highlighting contexts, subjects and specificities. We noticed converging aspects between the themes and the potential to contribute to an education that values criticism, autonomy and social participation. Such results also point out that, although in isolation, ideas associated with Rural Education, STS, Paulo Freire and curriculum are objects of study in many works, which combined, however, even with powerful articulations, are only found in few studies.
Keywords:
Rural education; STS; Paulo Freire; Curriculum; Academic research