Production and socialization of knowledge about Rural Education: reflections on the Inforcampo Extension Project

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the actions of the Inforcampo Extension Project, an annual edition newsletter, elaborated through a partnership between students and professors of the Undergraduate Course in Rural Education of the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Campus of Teresina, aiming of expanding and socializing knowledge about the place of Field Education in public policies, Brazilian legislation and school and community educational practices, opportunistizing academics experiences that articulate reading, discussion, research and written production. The research was based on the following guide questions: how does the process of production and socialization of knowledge about Field Education develop in the scope of Inforcampo? How does the proposal of this newsletter dialogue with the propositions of the Political Pedagogical Project of the LEdoC? In order to answer them, a qualitative critical research was developed, through documentary analysis of the five editions of Inforcampo. The results indicate that, through their production, undergraduates have the opportunity to identify and problematize the impact of these policies and methodologies on school routine sand the identities of school actors, as well as establish links between social, political, economic and educational organization in the municipalities where they live. It is concluded that Inforcampo is an important means of communication, dissemination and production of knowledge and pedagogical instrument that enables the interdisciplinary work of contents contained in the curricular components: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Rural Education Legislation, Organization of Brazilian Education and Public Policies of Rural Education.

Keywords

• informative
• initial teacher training
• degree in rural education.