The qualification and the professional identity formation of the family farmers at Januária Region - Minas Gerais
This study thesis proposes a discussion on the connections between the professional qualification courses, gestated by government programs PLANFOR and PNQ, and the formation of professional identity of the farmers in the region Januária - MG. These programs, gestated in the early 1990s, in a context of profound changes in the world of work were deployed also in rural areas, in search for a professional farmer, able to design them a professional identity and integrate it into new development model. The spread of new standards related to productivity made them become more complex relations with the world of work and, therefore, require more specialized workers. At least in theory, access to technology through training tend to provide increased production and productivity which would generate surpluses that led farmers to enter the market and consumer markets. This model of development for the field develops from public policy qualification, but not all farmers assimilate this recipe and build strategies to maintain their conditions of peasant farming tradition. The construction of professional identities of farmers established itself naturally by social processes, but also by changes in production structures and the organizational forms of society. Thus the professional identity of farmers is related to the qualifications and access to production technology, with land use, with credit, market, and especially to social recognition of the farming profession. The qualification has contributed to the process of professionalization, but unfortunately, depends on other important elements of economic, institutional and social for their achievement.