Historical aspects curriculum of the Degree in Rural Education — Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Federal University of Maranhão: weaving reflections

Abstract

The Degree in Rural Education at Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) began its activities in 2009 and was institutionalized in 2014. In order to encourage discussions, as well advance in the consolidation of this degree, we ask ourselves what the guiding principles of the curriculum are evident in the Pedagogical Political Project (PPP) of the Degree Course in Rural Education — Natural Sciences and Mathematics, at UFMA. Guided by this question, we bring a history of the creation of the course, we present the general aspects of its curricular organization and, finally, we weave reflections, in the hermeneutic perspective of Paul Ricoeur (1987), about the guiding principles of the curriculum that is evidenced in the PPP, namely: Education as a political act of social transformation; Teacher training in an emancipatory perspective and Alternation as a space for reflection-action-reflection. The interpretative exercise points to the need to broaden the debate regarding training by area of ​​knowledge and interdisciplinarity in your curriculum.