Educação popular e educação do campo: relação entre teorias e práticas na formação de educadores no curso de pedagogia – educação do campo/UFPB

Abstract

In this work we present our study on the course of Pedagogy degree with an area of deepening in the Rural Education, implemented by means of the Restructuring, Expansion of Federal Universities program and approved by CONSEPE/UFPB Resolution no. 47 of April 28th, 2009, which works in the Education Center of the campus I of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba. The above-mentioned course presents a proposal of the higher education initial of educators to work in the Rural School, starting from the reflection and the needs of the rural people in the context of public policies of affirmative action, in response to the struggles of Social Movements for a quality education and contextualized with its particularities. Characterized as a case study with a qualitative approach, this research had as main objective to analyze educational proposals of that course of higher training in Pedagogy and your relationship with the fundamentals of Popular Education and the Rural Education. Performed from the documentary analysis of the pedagogical political project of the course, as well as semi-structured interviews with professionals graduates from the first concluding class, this study sought to understand how such training still influenced educational practices of professional graduates, so a look at the higher teacher training which should act in rural schools. At the end of this study, we found that, although the course curriculum still present gaps concerning the inclusion and insertion of new technologies in the school context, we observe that the course's pedagogical proposal is in accordance with principles of Popular education and education in the field. However, there is still much to conquer both the academic as in the social environment, since it is necessary to overcome the contradictions existing in society in relation to a Popular Rural Education. Keywords: Rural Education. Popular Education. Higher Education. Initial Trainning. Pedagogy.