Undergraduate Course in Rural Educations: social representations on the choice of profession

• Autor(a) principal: Veronese, Monaise Cristina Borges Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Sivieri-Pereira, Helena de Ornellas, Miranda, Camila Lima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de educação popular (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/reveducpop/article/view/68994
• topic: Licenciate Courses in Rural Education; Social Representations; College Education; Licenciatura em Educação do Campo; Representações Sociais; Educação Superior; Motivación; Licenciatura en Educación Rural; Representaciones Sociales

This work discusses the social representations that underlie the motivations of students to enter the Licentiate Course in Rural Education (LECampo) at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The instruments used to obtain the data were: a questionnaire, interview, and focus group. To interpret the information, we used the Content Analysis, proposed by Bardin. As a result, some categories were listed, among them the “Choice of the Profession”, discussed in this article. It was found that the motivation of students to attend LECampo is the result of the influence of the environment in which they live and the social representation that this course offers a great opportunity for inclusion in higher education, resulting in a change in life for young people and adults in the field. It was still clear that this entry contributed to reversing a historical framework of inequality in peasants’ access to education.