EDUCATION AND THE MEANINGS OF TRAINING IN TECHNICAL COURSE IN AGRICULTURE

The study investigates the meanings of professional training in the Technical Course in Agriculture, a subsequent modality, at the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) - Campus Vacaria (Rio Grande do Sul), after its institutionalization in 2014. The objective is to analyze, the starting from the training path of graduates, the representations and meanings produced in the training process between 2016 and 2018, through oral history, which was used as a method for the construction of oral sources. The memories were analyzed and compared with other documents using the documentary analysis methodology, composing the empirical research. As a result, it is identified that the training trajectories in the Agricultural Technician course are constituted, based on the installation of IFRS in the city, its access and retention and success policies and programs, which support and encourage the training process. For graduates, social and economic results also resonate, highlighting the creation of a support and business network, a means by which they exchange knowledge, information of common and economic interest, insertion into the job market in leadership positions, investments in the agribusiness area, as an economic enterprise and increased income.