Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo (Apr 2020)

Family Farmer Course: Possible approximations with the Popular Education and the Rural Education

  • Osmar Lottermann,
  • Walter Frantz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20873/uft.rbec.e7368
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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This article presents a research carried out on the execution of the Family Farmer Course, delivered in different municipalities around the Farroupilha Federal Institute - Santo Augusto Campus, in 2013 and 2014, with the objective of identifying its characteristics and possible similarities with the Popular Education and the Rural Education. A qualitative bibliographic and documentary review was used as methodology. We started from the hypothesis that, in order for courses run by public institutions to meet the objectives of the Popular and Rural Educations, there must be an articulation between the Extension project and the rural workers involved. We conducted our analysis based on the following questions: Are there theoretical references in the Pedagogical Project that indicate a commitment to the Popular Education? What can be extracted from the Project in relation to the demands of the Rural Education? Finally, what is the character and scope of the institutional involvement of the Campus with the family farmers, through the Research and Extension Department and the extension projects? We identified limitations of the Extension project when taking into account the needs for dialogue with rural workers and progressive aspects in the basic training space of the Course Pedagogical Project, which allowed for reflections in class.

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