Abstract

HAGE, Salomão Antônio Mufarrej; SILVA, Hellen do Socorro de Araújo  and  BRITO, Márcia Mariana Bittencourt. HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: CHALLENGES FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE DEGREE IN RURAL EDUCATION. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2016, vol.32, n.4, pp.147-174. ISSN 1982-6621.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-4698162036.

The article reflects on Higher Education among the struggles led by the peasants' movement of education, from the trajectory of the Support Program Degrees in Rural Education (Procampo) in Brazil and in the State of Pará. The aim was to analyze the difficulties, challenges and expectations demanded by students to consolidate this course, through documentary survey and field research developed in Cametá Campus of the Federal University of Pará. The results indicated as difficulties the precariousness of the infrastructure for the development of the course and a short approach the university with social movements. As challenges, the study has identified the importance of the subjects to understand and assume the course particularities, and self-organization of students as a tool to consolidate the Course. And as expectations, the study has identified the need for the training offered differentiate itself from conventional practice, with emphasis on socio-cultural experiences and the institutional and social recognition of the course.

Keywords : Higher Education; Rural Education; Educational Policies; Social Movements; Teachers' formation..

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