A few steps away: two schools, two different worlds. Calòns families and public schools dealing with "itinerancia"

This article describes how Calon parents and teachers deal with the consequences on schooling of their semim-nomadic professions. The ethnographic research is focused on two schools in Brazilian neighborhood where I analyzed standard curriculum, organization and interactions among school directions and teachers. The paper aims at highlighting the ways in which Clon parents participate in education, and different stategies carried out by schools in order to guarantee schooling to their children.