Ideologia e racionalidade na pratica da extensão rural

Abstract

Rural extension as a public organization of rural development expresses in its documents the goal ofachieving improvement ofits work with its public. In this work, a study on the warking ofthe "system world"of a organizational structure with national, regional and city range, with a view to help in identifying roads to such improvement. Wilt the effective extension workers participation and with the democratization ofthe information which at present take places, the quaiity ofthe result of the work ofthe organization may be enhanced. This action depends on organizational sociabilization and information capable of affording this improvement in the effective action in the "worid of life". Habermas (1983), in the theory ofthe communicative acting, shows a reflexion on modem rationality where bureaucratical processes tend to encompass the purpose of individuais in tfieir managemental process. On the other hand, Freire (1975), emphasize education as fundamental to the aware participation of individuais and their organizations in the devolopmental process. Thus, both the success and quaiity of the organization, \\z its adaptation and survival in an environment more and more communicative, democratized and globaiized will be owing to the eniargement ofthe space for participation ofextension workers in the organizational decision-making process. Through the historical documental investigation of the organization ofrural extension in Brazil, and particulariy in the state of Minas Gerais, the prevalence of two contrary rationalities between each other, directing their guidelines, patterns and hence extensionist action. In the search for the analysis ofthe organizational ideology of the public organizations turned into rural extension interprises were found the participarrt rationality today prevailing among employees and spreading rationality . In an assynchronical development, these rationalities were constituting of the direction that State used to establish and the relationshipe among extension workers, the interprise, among these and the public imprinting the methods through which lhe organization would work both intemally and extemally. To complement the characterization of this ideology, in this dissertation an empirical research work is shown, seeking to check the positioning of the extensionists themseives ofthe Sulmineira superintendency of EMATER-MG, relative to the rationalities shown, taken from variables such as technology, communication, 1he forms oforganization and interaction with the public.