The Degree in Rural Education in the state of Goiás: graduates’ views on the multiple learned in the training of countryside educators at UFG and UFCat

Abstract

The study proposed here focuses on the discussion of Rural Education, as well as the theoretical and pedagogical principles that guided the Licentiate Degree in Rural Education courses in the state of Goiás during their implementation. The objective of this work is to present the views of the graduates of the course on the process of their formation and the appropriation of academic and political concepts of Rural Education within the two courses. To achieve the research objectives, theoretical research and documentary research were used and field research. From the application of a questionnaire with open and closed questions that brought elements about the students' perception about their training process in the course and the consequences in their professional performance. The subjectivity of the graduates' views leads us to reflect on the importance of the Licentiate Degree in Rural Education course beyond the university, in view of the advances and setbacks that limit us in the institutional space of Rural Education. Anyway, there is a consensus that training at both universities was able to promote training based on awareness of the role of these students in their communities, being agents of change in their communities.

Keywords

• degree in rural education
• graduates
• teacher training.