FROM QUESTIONS TO ANSWERS: RURAL EDUCATION AS THE THEME OF DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED AT PPGED/UFPA FROM 2012 TO 2017

Abstract

This article analyzes the results and conclusions, based on the problems and objectives, of research whose theme was Rural Education, defended in the Postgraduate Program of the Federal University of Pará, from 2012 to 2017. To this end, chose the following as the central question: what problems, purposes and conclusions permeated the research whose theme was Rural Education, carried out in the master's degree of the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Pará (PPGED/UFPA) in that period ? The objective is to identify the problems addressed in the research of that period, as well as to investigate the purposes and results/conclusions of these investigations. To this end, a theoretical study was carried out, resulting from a bibliographical research, using content analysis based on Bardin (1977). The dissertations were accessed virtually in the PPGED/UFPA repository, using the descriptor “from the field”. The theoretical framework includes authors such as Leite (2002) and Damasceno (1993), who discuss issues related to rural education; Santos (2020); Arroyo (2011); Fernandes; Cerili; Caldart (2011) and Lima and Matos (2023), which address Rural Education. The results indicate that, although advances have been made, educational policies and actions aimed at rural people, in the period analyzed, still presented characteristics more aligned with a “rural education” policy, in its historical and conceptual conception, than with the education demanded by the subjects of rights.