Abstract

GISLOTI, Laura Jane; SANTOS, Dalva Melo dos; SANTOS, Cíntia Melo dos  and  SILVA, Sandra Procópio da. Profile and perceptions of future rural educators upon entering Public University. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2021, vol.47, e222383.  Epub Apr 05, 2021. ISSN 1678-4634.  https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-4634202147222383.

The objective of this study is to gather antecedents, motivations and perceptions of teachers who will study and attain their bachelor’s degree in Rural Education (LEDUC) at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD). From research instruments of mixed quantitative and qualitative character (a questionnaire structured with open and closed questions and a semi-structured interview) and the analysis of the content of two speeches obtained, we discuss and analyze them in the context of two fundamental dimensions: the profile of women students who are looking to take Rural Education and their perception when it comes to its impact on their lives after they had been admitted to the university. The women´s profile of women shows they are under 28 years old, rural residents, single and childless. They attended high school in rural schools and found in LEDUC the possibility of entering higher education due to several factors, including the Alternation Pedagogy method, in which the teaching-learning process alternates between time at the university and time at the community. This allows them to study according to their objective conditions. These women are still not professionally inserted in rural schools, they identify themselves as students, they have faced gender-related challenges and they believe the course has changed their relationships with the non-country life, professional life (35%), domestic life (31%) and social life (30%). We reaffirm that the entry of women in this course favors them to take other roles in society, making them recognize themselves as agents that help the construction of Rural Education at the university and in their communities because of their appreciation of their way of life and the associated knowledge they possess, in addition to contributing to the transformation of the patriarchal culture that is present in peasant culture.

Keywords : Peasant women; Students; Women from rural areas; Profile.

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