THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CAIC PAULO DACORSO FILHO FOR THE FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO AND THE CITY OF SEROPÉDICA
Key-Words: UFRRJ; CAIC; Seropédica; Full Time Education; Integral Education.
This doctoral research has aimed at the analysis of the importance of the Center for Integral Attention for Children and Adolescents (CAIC) Paulo Dacorso Filho to the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and to the Seropédica´s County-RJ, since it reverberates in the institutional changes in this University, in the above County and in the CAIC through the contextualization of the education policies, their challenges and possibilities. It is therefore a research that relies on the historical and political settings as it establishes discussions around the public policies based on the institutional records that form the basis of this survey. It was developed as a basic, qualitative and descriptive research that has used: a) bibliographic search made through thesis, dissertations, books; articles; b) documentary research accomplished from data that did not have any analytical treatment; c) field research sustained over interviews to collect information from: professors who have built projects in (UFRRJ), the Seropédica´s County administrator, the agent of the Municipal Department of Education and the professors who have contributed to implementing the CAIC. It is important to highlight that the field research data collection was done from magazines since the social distance had been required, over 2020, due to the world`s devastation caused by Covid 19 at that time. This thesis is divided into five chapters: In the Chapter I, we introduce the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro to the reader, bouncing the most relevant facts of its historical and social paths. Then, we point out the Seropédica`s County not only from the view of its historical, geographical, economic and social features but also from the prism of its education system. In the Chapter II, we dig more deeply in the concepts of the integral education; full time education. As the CAIC is an institution which lays down the full time education, we took into account the trajectory of the public policies concerning the integral education and the full time education in Brazil. The Chapter III, emphasizes the legal basis for the Program of Attention for Children and Adolescents (PRONAICA) as well as its scope; actions besides its realization from the Centers of Integral Attention for Children and Adolescents– CAICs. The chapter IV, concentrates on the analysis of the CAIC Paulo Dacorso Filho, which is the object of this research, giving information about the creation of this center and the difficulties faced by its managers to keep this institution working. We do a retrospective of its history, developed projects and challenges encountered there since its foundation. In the chapter V, based on the field research, we identify the main contributions from CAIC to the UFRRJ and to the Seropédica`s County just as from this institution; this county to the CAIC, exposing educational data regards the significant educational development in this region. As a conclusion, this research reveals the fact that over twenty seven years of work the CAIC has been strongly contributing to the academic quality of the (UFRRJ) University and also to the Seropédica`s County through a strong bond settled among them.