Graduates’ perspectives of the Undergraduate program in Rural Education, Arraias Campus/Tocantins

Abstract

This text is an excerpt of the Doctoral thesis in Education at the Federal University of São Carlos-UFSCAR, in which it presents a study on the Undergraduate program in Rural Education (LEdoC) at the Federal University of Tocantins, Arraias Campus, analyzing in to what extent the conditions of its materialization contribute to the formation of the working class. This paper aimed to analyze the materialization of the Undergraduate program in Rural Education from the perspective of its graduates. Therefore, we undertook an investigation that sought to answer the following question: What are the LEdoC graduates’ perspectives at UFT/Arraias campus, Tocantins? For this, we seek to unveil the object of study from the concrete reality, seeking to relate it to society in the search for understanding this movement of human formation in its entirety. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews with 20 (twenty) LEdoC graduates in 2019. The results indicate that, in relation to the graduates, the number of students who completed it is still not expressive, given that only 37 (thirty-seven) of them completed the course. On the other hand, the graduates reveal that the course provided important contributions to their personal formation, since many now have another vision of “Rural Education”. In relation to insertion in the labor world, the course (and its specificities) is still not being contemplated in selection and competition edicts, both municipal and state, which demands attention to these issues, especially on the part of those interested. Given the data presented in this study, it is possible to see that LEdoC strives to make its proposal materialize in a satisfactory way; however, it has many challenges.

Keywords

• undergraduate program in rural education
• graduates of rural education
• rural education perspectives.