Reflections about graduates of the Teaching Degree Course in Rural Education at the University of Brasília: elements for “Pedagogical (Action) Transformation” in Higher Education

Abstract

This paper addresses the elements of pedagogical (action) transformation brought about by the Teaching Degree Course in Rural Education, in the last ten years, in Higher Education at the University of Brasília. This course is the result of a public policy implemented based on a pilot program carried out in this University. The research was performed adopting historical-dialectical materialism as an epistemology and method. Data collection was developed in two steps: in the first step, the following instruments were used: questionnaires and documentary research to describe the profile of graduates; and, in the second stage, action research and interviews, with students who were attending postgraduate studies, which resulted in notes of transformation elements in the materialization of the pedagogical reality, ranging from changes in the university’s physical structure to serve peasant subjects to the work epistemology adopted by graduates who took the course.

Keywords

• Rural Education
• Teacher Training
• Praxis Epistemology