Entre tempos e espaços de formação: plano de estudo e formação integrada na escola família agrícola

Abstract

This dissertation aimed analyzing the contribution of the research plan, considered the main pedagogical/methodological procedure of the Pedagogy of Alternation, for the integrated training in the Escola Família Agrícola. In order to reach the proposed objective, a case study was carried out, through a qualitative approach, whose locus of research was the Escola Família Agrícola de Natalândia – Minas Gerais (EFAN). As a source of data collection, simple observation was used, in order to observe the steps of the Reseacher Plan in the school environment; the documentary research based on the institutional documents of EFAN; the semistructured interview directed to the parents and the teachers/monitors and the focus group carried out with students of the technical course in agriculture integrated to the high school. After the field research was completed, the analysis of the data through the triangulation of data was carried out in the field of the dialectic. For the building of this essay text, it sought to base the discussions on the paradigms of field education and rural education; on Pedagogy of Alternation in the world and in Brazil, highlighting the origin and consolidation of EFAN in the northwest of Minas Gerais, as well as reflecting on the pedagogical/methodological procedures of Pedagogy of Alternation, especially on the Study Plan. In addition, it was discussed about the conception of integrated formation adopted in this work and about the paths taken in the Brazilian legislation that deals with the subject. It was also about the relation between work and education, praxis, as well as unitary school and work as educational principle. The results of this study demonstrated that the formative proposal promoted by EFAN is based on the integrated formation that is present not only in the institutional documents but also in the educational practice of the Institution. The research also showed that the researcher plan, because it is the link between the family environment and the school environment, contributes to the effectiveness of integrated training, since it allows the student to reflect on their reality and theorize it in the school environment. Futhermore, the reflection on the research data subsidized the building of the educational product that materialized through the elaboration of the booklet "The educational process of the Escola Família Agrícola de Natalândia", produced with the intention of contributing to the formation of families and with the dissemination of alternation as an educational proposal of EFAN. The evaluation of the educational product performed by the teachers/monitors showed that the booklet can contribute to the purpose proposed in this dissertation.