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This research used the Methodology of Narrative Productions (MNP) to understand how the experiences evidenced by the educators' narratives can contribute for the development of pedagogical practices articulated to the principles of the Rural Education. In methodological terms, we carried out three narrative interviews with rural educators who worked in a rural school in the city of Carangola – MG based on the assumptions of the MPN. The data indicated the existence of different experiences acquired by each educator who participated in this research, throughout their life, school and/or professional trajectory that put them in contact with the rural people. Among other issues, the narratives showed that all participants indicated developing educational processes articulated to the cultures, knowledge, and ways of life of rural people. However, in these analyses we found that the articulation depends exclusively on each educator, as there is no policy and/or guidance from school management and/or the municipal government that encourages such practices.

This research used the Methodology of Narrative Productions (MNP) to understand how the experiences evidenced by the educators' narratives can contribute for the development of pedagogical practices articulated to the principles of the Rural Education. In methodological terms, we carried out three narrative interviews with rural educators who worked in a rural school in the city of Carangola – MG based on the assumptions of the MPN. The data indicated the existence of different experiences acquired by each educator who participated in this research, throughout their life, school and/or professional trajectory that put them in contact with the rural people. Among other issues, the narratives showed that all participants indicated developing educational processes articulated to the cultures, knowledge, and ways of life of rural people. However, in these analyses we found that the articulation depends exclusively on each educator, as there is no policy and/or guidance from school management and/or the municipal government that encourages such practices.

The licentiate degrees in Rural Education are a recent achievement in our society and have been arising from the protagonist of the peasant social movements and trade unions. They had their expansion marked by the announcement MEC/SESU/SETEC/SECADI n.º 02/2012, which enabled the creation of new training courses for rural educators in 42 Brazilian Education Institutions. Considering these licentiate degrees, we highlight the Licentiate in Rural Education of the Federal University of Viçosa (LICENA), which in its creation and institutionalization process had the involvement and participation of diverse social and union movements. Among them, the Agricultural Family Schools (EFAs) have become a partner in the construction of the training processes of the course, as much by the experience with the Pedagogy of Alternating, as by the necessity of the initial formation of its monitors. Aiming to understand LICENA's training processes, we analyzed the evaluations of the monitors on the contributions of the course to the pedagogical practices developed in the EFAs, by conducting interviews that were submitted to the Content Analysis method. The results indicate that LICENA has contributed to the formation of the monitors both through the appropriation of didactic-pedagogical knowledge and through the stimulation of interdisciplinary practices.