The flight of the graduate birds from the UFRGS Rural Education Course: challenges and possibilities in teacher training in Natural Sciences

Abstract

This article presents a study on the performance of graduates of the Licentiate´s in Rural Education: Nature Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (LEDOC/UFRGS), Porto Alegre campus. As a research problem, the following question was established: How do birds from LEDOC/UFRGS campus Porto Alegre fly? The objective was to analyze, from the course monitoring data, the performance of graduates, as well as to reflect on the challenges and potential of teacher education of natural sciences in rural education, based on the interviews carried out. The research is qualitative, of the case study type and semi-structured interviews were used as a research instrument. The Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) was used to analyze the transcripts. The results were discussed from the category, defined a priori, Triad: Rural – Public Policy – Education in flapping movements. In the end, we consider that the graduates interviewed, after the course, gave new meanings to their ways of reading and intervening in their territories.

Keywords

• graduates
• teacher training
• rural education
• natural sciences.