THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CAIC PAULO DACORSO FILHO FOR THE FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO AND THE CITY OF SEROPÉDICA
Keywords: Educational Policies; UFRRJ; CAIC
The research proposes an anlysis of the importance of the Center of Full Care for Children and Adolescents (CAIC) Paulo Dacorso Filho for the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and the city of Seropédica-RJ, dialoguing with the institutional changes through which the university, the city of Seropédica and CAIC school have passed, observing the contextualization of educational policies, its challenges and possibilities. We will be based on the History of UFRRJ which has its origin as a Higher School of Agriculture and Veterinay Medicine, created by Decree n° 8.319, of octuber 20, 1910 (BRAZIL, 1910). More recently, the university has significantly expanded the offer of graduation courses as well as the number of students from Baixada Fluminense/RJ. During the research we will seek to situate and characterize geographically and socially the city of Seropédica and explain the educational data, pointing out elements for strengthening the education of this region. The thesis will present the objectives, trajectories and main contributions of social policies to create the Integrated Centers for Child Care – CIAC’s and Centers of Full Care for Children and Adolescents – CAIC’s in the Brazilian historical and political context. Later, CAIC Paulo Dacorso Filho will be treated epecifically, focus of our investigation, revisiting its history, developed projects, actors involved, profile of the target audience, and conflints regarding its administration fought between the university and the city. In this historical course the projects developed by UFRRJ, which play a fundamental role in the construction of CAIC pedagogical proposal, will be pointed out. We will use as methodology: a) bibliographic research elaborated from material already published, such as books, articles, periodicals, internet, etc.; b) documentary research prepared from material that did not receive analytical treatment; among them the pedagogical political project; and c) field research from interviews with teachers who developed projects in the unit and former managers.