The Influences of Agrarian Tradition in the offer of Agricultural Education Courses at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
Key words: UFRRJ; agrarian tradition; agricultural education; LICA
ABSTRACT
PERIM, Érica Rodrigues Marins. The Influences of Agrarian Tradition in the offer of Agricultural Education Courses at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. 2021. 336 p. Master's Research (Pós-Graduate in Education, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica/Nova Iguaçu, RJ, 2021).
The Master’s research aims to investigate how the training of agricultural education professionals in the Licentiate in Agricultural Sciences (LICA) of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro is taking place and if the Institution's agrarian tradition has influenced the daily life of this course. It´s a basic, qualitative, descriptive research, which uses information extracted from bibliographic research, elaborated from material already published, such books, articles, periodicals, internet, among others, and documental research, elaborated from material that received no analytical treatment. The investigation is characterized as a case study that deepened the data collection with the application of questionnaires to professors and former course coordinators at LICA, and with information extracted from online events, which we had the opportunity to participate. The reflections and analyzes will be developed from a historical-analytical view of the research problem, which will guide the entire methodological path. The study was developed based on the history of the Institution. In the first chapter, it covers the period from 1910 to 1970, presenting the historical path in which the agrarian tradition was built and consolidated. In the second chapter, it discusses the institution's removal from its agrarian tradition, covering the period from 1970 until the implementation of the Support Program for Federal University Restructuring and Expansion Plans (REUNI), in 2007, a milestone in the opening of courses abroad of the agrarian area at UFRRJ. The third chapter brings the historical path of agricultural education in Brazil and the public policies adopted for professional education in the country, accompanied by the main legal instruments that supported them, with a temporal scope from the colonial period until the year 2017. Chapter IV presents the LICA Course, encompassing its creation, trajectory, the main transformations and perspectives for the future. We conclude by reaffirming the historical importance of the course for UFRRJ, especially for undergraduate courses, developing some reflections resulting from the analysis of the proposal approved for its last curricular reform, currently in force. Following are the Study Conclusions, Bibliographic References, Appendices and Annexes.