Contribuição do Curso de Licenciatura em Educação do Campo EaD-UAB da UFPel no Desenvolvimento Territorial dos Polos de Atuação.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the contribution of the Degree Course in Rural Education (CLEC) in the distance modality (EaD) of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) by the Open University of Brazil (UAB) system, from the perspective of Graduates, Course Coordinators and Hub Coordinators seeking to understand the relationship with the impacts on the development of the territories where they operate. Taking into account the context of the present work, the approach used was qualitative and quantitative exploratory with documentary study and data collection, snowball or snowball sampling, non-probabilistic type. Different questionnaires were applied through the Google forms platform to each group of subjects, graduates, course coordinators and hub coordinators. After collecting the data and from these, the content analysis was carried out, separating into schemes according to the objectives, originating categories subcategories, and finally, from the content revealed in the meanings, the themes emerged that are: Territorial development; CLEC indicators; UFPel in the centers of activity. The results obtained in this work do not represent all centers and not all graduates of the course, only those subjects who participated in this research. In the Territorial Development theme, it was possible to observe the importance of training in the life of the graduates of the course, their trajectory from childhood to the present day, as well as from the point of view of the Polo and Course Coordinators to analyze through the reports the relevance of the performance of graduates at the centers and their experiences in the communities. The social transformations provided by training, in developing the profession of rural educator, in expanding productive reflective capacity and social empowerment, in preparing for beyond the course, in engaging in practices such as: permanence in the countryside, agroecology, entrepreneurship, tourism rural, to other perspectives that dialogue with the communities in which they live. The course indicators show the importance and scope of the course, which was present in twenty-five municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, contributing to the formation and growth of graduates, as well as to their performance in local schools, helping to improve educational indexes and pedagogical training for the ideal performance of education in the country. It was a major UFPel project created in the distance education modality through UAB and also reflects the role of education as a basis in territorial development, and of UFPel, as a public institution providing access and free training, providing society with quality services. Although CLEC is extinct at UFPel, the study can serve the other distance education courses of the Institution and the country, as well as the demands of rural people, also reaching spaces geographically not considered as rural, but which bring in their roots a culture from of the rural world.