COUNTRY EDUCATION: An evaluation of degrees in Countryside Education implemented in the state of Rio Grande do Norte
Keywords: Social movements; Peasant agriculture; Rural education; Territorial development.
ABSTRACT
This research proposal aims to evaluate the rural education policy based on the resistance of the peasant population, which aims at a human formation anchored in the social, cultural, economic, environmental and political dimensions, in the face of the hegemony of Brazilian agrarian capitalism that directly influences the demands for these territories, including in the field of education. Considering as the object of study the rural education policy based on the undergraduate courses in rural education (LEDOC) offered in higher education institutions in several Brazilian states, with the objective of training teachers for the final years (second segment) of elementary and high school in line with the specific social and cultural reality of the populations that work and live in and from the countryside, in the diversity of pedagogical actions necessary to realize it as a human right and as a tool for social development. Approximately 76 LEDOC courses have been implemented in Brazil. We will conduct a study on the impacts produced by the implementation of LEDOCs in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The degree program was implemented through the Federal Rural University of Semiarido (UFERSA), Mossoro campus, and the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Canguaretama campus. It is intended to train teachers to work in rural schools and its target audience is rural educators who do not have a degree, in compliance with Decree No. 7,352/2010, which also favors family farmers, settlers, campers, fishermen, riverside dwellers, islanders, quilombolas, indigenous peoples and forest peoples. The methodological path will employ a qualitative and quantitative approach to understand the results produced through this public educational policy, and students, graduates, teachers, coordinators and community members in the territories where LEDOCs operate will be selected to participate in the application of closed questionnaires to enable socioeconomic profile. We will use a non-probabilistic intentional sampling of the total universe reached, we will consider 20% as the research sample for conducting semi-structured interviews. As results, we aim to highlight the relevance of rural education policy for sustainable rural development, necessary to overcome the educational crisis of the rural population.
Keywords: Social movements; Peasant agriculture; Rural education; Territorial development.