O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Agrícola da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro e o processo de avaliação da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Abstract

This research aimed to study scientific study, the evaluation process carried out by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) with the Graduate Program in Agricultural Education (PPGEA) of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and its performance as Brazilian public education. This study followed a theoretical, documentary, quantitative and qualitative analysis character, carried out through the comparison and observation of the data between 2013-2016, through defined criteria and whose evaluation results were published in the Sucupira Platform in 2017. The main objective of the research was to highlight the importance of the Program in the Area of Education and Management in view of the national panorama of Brazilian education, compared to the CAPES Evaluation Report in 2017, referring to the four-year period 2013-2016. The first phase of the research consisted of a documentary theoretical study through the basic authors and through the data examination provided to the CAPES Evaluation Report, obtained at the PPGEA secretariat. In the second phase, comparative and percentage studies were conducted through the construction of tables and numerical tables expressing potential and qualitative results referring to the four-year evaluation in 2017. Through these parameters, it was concluded that PPGEA has been achieving its quality and development goals in graduate studies, highlighting its pedagogical proposals, especially the pedagogy of alternation, used in the teaching and training of masters and for its national expansion strategy, mainly within the limits of the Midwest and Northern regions of Brazil, offering opportunities for specialization and professional qualification for working classes in meeting the main goals of the Plan National Graduate School