ANALYSIS OF THE PRAXIS OF EDUCATORS WHO GRADUATED FROM THE DEGREE IN RURAL EDUCATION AT UNIFESSPA: POTENTIALITIES AND CHALLENGES
Training of educators; Degree in Rural Education; Rural school; Praxis; Teaching Work
It analyzes the praxis of graduates of the Degree in Rural Education (LPEC) of the Federal University of South and Southeast of Pará (Unifesspa) in order to understand their professional performance and experiences, considering limits and possibilities. To which he was guided by the method of historical and dialectical materialism. The field research, carried out in the southeast of Pará from July 2023 to March 2024, involved techniques such as participant observation, conducting interviews, and document analysis. The results showed that the social practice of educators who graduated from LPEC/Unifesspa is conditioned by multiple determinations. Dialectically, most of the graduates are inserted as workers in formal education and with links in educational processes that go beyond the school, where the organic insertion in the political organization of the workers stands out. The tensions in the face of the non-inclusion of the profile of LPEC graduates in the legislation that regulates the exercise of teaching in the education networks are a manifestation of the presence and hegemony of another ongoing training project, aligned with agreements with multilateral organizations, and is carried out, among other ways, through the distance education modality, also in the provision of secondary education. The self-organization initiatives of these educators for their professional insertion in the territories with face-to-face offer of pedagogical activities linked to the life and culture of the peoples is presented as resistance to the hegemonic project of the education of the youth and the working class; constitute a praxis that takes up guidelines from the origin of the conception of Rural Education, so that they generate a revolutionary potential.