Técnico agrícola: peão melhorado?

Abstract

Aiming to know the profiles of agricultural technicians egressed from the Instituto Federal Goiano campus Ceres in three distinct phases and their insertion in the market place, school-farm period, the 2.208/97 and 5.154/04 edicts, the central research question which guided the present thesis was to understand to whom this professional education has served. In terms of theoretical-methodological tools, I recurred to the historical-dialectical materialism, which demands a range of approaching strategies related to the study object by means of a preliminary exploratory research, as well as an empirical investigation of the school teachers, egressed students and school managers. Considering the qualitative and quantitative analysis, we adopted a content analysis. After data tabulation, the use of this technique allowed to deepen the level of perception regarding the research purposes throw the interpretation and analysis of education as a State policy making tool in the school s geographical region, where a historical professional educational process and an incorporation and expulsion movements of the agricultural worker in the areas of arable lands always were present. As a consequence of this thesis theoreticalmethodological characteristics the historical-dialectical materialism - a dialogue with the academic-scientific literature on the theme was established in which it was possible to evidence the paths and non-paths of this mode of professional education in Brazil and the impacts of its discontinuity. Despite of the analyzed technician educational process has been historically faced malfunctions as a result of diverse moments in which its general guidelines were altered, what can be observed is that along such transformation the educational institution, that is the research locus, offered a qualitative professional formation to those students, an outcome of a conscious intervention by which the teacher role may change the traditional dichotomy and neutralize the discriminating power of the minority elite. Such conclusion was countersigned by annotation analysis about the egressed students, which indicated that regardless the phase the levels of influence of the educational background received and the market place demands are compatible and, emphatically, they attributed to a comprehensive education the responsibility by their maturation, as well as personal and professional growth, that enable them to make technical adequate decisions in every field situation whether it is in the agribusiness, familiar agriculture or in any other areas of professional activity. Particularizing here the campus Ceres trajectory and its strategies, conscious or not, the institutional culture spoke louder and resisted to immediate vulgates, saved the professional profiles graduated by it, and provided the institution own survival, educating a world citizen who goes beyond the intended enhanced farm-hand but even the professional profile of this agriculture technician fits as much to the Brazilian agro exporter capital interests, the familiar agricultural ends, as many other professional fields where such egressed students are inserted. Under a perspective of the rescue of the professional education, the conscious intervention of each institution in this education modality, considering the current legislation that commend an omnilateral formation, in my view, are relevant and inclusive as political practice aimed to the interest of most of the Brazilians, the class of those who live from the work.