Possibilidades de enfrentamento da evasão no curso de licenciatura em educação do campo: a pesquisa enquanto instrumento político e social de transformação

Abstract

This article presents the actions to deal with the evasion and discontinuity of the studies proposed as a result of a research that sought to understand the challenges of student’s stay in the Rural Education College Degree – Federal University of Espírito Santo State (Ufes), in Goiabeiras campus. It debates the possibilities and difficulties that emerged in the attempt to apply some of these actions, as well. Considering the intervention as one of the features of the research developed in a professional Master's degrees, the research presented itself as an adequate option in this study. For the production of the data showed in this article, questionnaires, group interviews and shared analyzes were used with the students of the course as active subjects throughout the process. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on Paulo Freire and on theoreticians of popular education and also Rural Education. The work pointed out that the challenges of a student’s stay in this course are articulated in a web of factors, whose motivations can be both internal and external to the Degree in Rural Education. The students' reports emphasize the lack of knowledge of the students and teachers concerning the principles and concepts of this graduation as one of the main causes of the discontinuity of their studies. The work also showed that the university is not yet prepared to receive the working class, especially the peasants, with the need to reinvent itself to dialogue with the specificities that the rural setting requires.