Escolas família agrícola na perspectiva do desenvolvimento rural sustentável

Abstract

The Work describes the principles, objectives and performance of the Escola Família Agrícola Itapirema, relating them with environmentalists conceptions and identifies the professional performance of its egresses. The EFA is a Center of Professional Education of level technician who search the promotion of the sustainable rural development. In conceptual terms, the work argues the thematic one of the sustainable development, the reality of familiar agriculture, the professional education and pedagogical and philosophical conceptions of the EFA. For understanding of the school and the beddings for its performance and the relation of these beddings with sustainability, the documents of the institution had been analyzed. Questionnaire for the graduated ones until the year of 2006 was applied. One evidenced that it has left of the egresses continues inhabiting in the property; others developing activities of assistance; some continue exclusively the academic formation, the majority in the area of Agrarian Sciences, others are developing activities in the city not tied with the received formation. When all are considered the egresses that directly develop related activities with the received formation, evidence that approximately 80% act in accord that the objectives of the educational institution.