Educação e desenvolvimento rural : desafios e perspectivas para a educação do campo em Minas Gerais, 2008-2015

Abstract

The research, developed within the line Work, Society and Education of the Postgraduate Program of the Faculty of Education of UFU, had as objective to analyze the public education policies of the field in Brazil and, specifically in the state of Minas Gerais. For that, ProJovem Campo - Saberes da Terra, Saberes de Minas was adopted as object of study, in the 2008-2015 time cut. The investigation was based on the estimations of qualitative research in education. In reference to the objectives, this is an exploratory and descriptive research, and in relation to the data collection procedures, the thesis was developed through bibliographical and documentary research with search and analysis in primary sources - government documents and from international agencies - that compose the technical, legal and political framework of ProJovem Campo, as well as regulates and promotes public education in the country and in the state of Minas Gerais, regarding the design and execution of the program. It was based on the hypothesis that, despite representing advances in the increase of schooling, the program does not promote the autonomous, solidary and empowered insertion of the subjects in the world of work, through social and professional qualification, as proposed. The research allowed the deliberation on the importance of social movements in the construction process of the rural education proposal, developed in the context of the hegemonic mode of production, revealing contradictions and conflicts between State and society in the construction of the national public educational agenda. From the results obtained, it can be seen that the ProJovem Campo - Saberes da Terra, Saberes de Minas project is characterized as a government policy, acts partially and superficially on socio-educational issues and does not solve the structural limitations that lead to the origin of poverty and low levels of schooling of rural populations in the state of Minas Gerais, such as access to land and paid work opportunities. Even considering the current progress in rural education researches, the program is still approaching to rural education, mainly because of the unidirectional systematics of its design and implementation, which disregards the voices of those for whom it is intended, which characterizes the praxis of rural education introduced in Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century.