'No risk in the rural': information on COVID-19 among rural university

This article analyzed the reception, evaluation and circulation of information on COVID-19 between people living in rural communities located in municipalities in the interior region of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This research is part of an extension project created in April 2020 with 128 students from a training course aimed at teachers for rural schools, offered by a Brazilian federal public university. Questionnaires with closed and open questions were applied in three stages: 35 students in the first stage (April/May 2020), 46 students in the second stage (July 2020) and 29 students in the third stage (June/July 2021). Data were analyzed using categorical content analysis. The results were organized into the following categories: a) means of communication to access information, b) focus of information, c) immunization through vaccine and d) false or misleading information. There is an excess of false information that could have aggravated the effects of the pandemic among rural and peasant populations in the analyzed context. Thus, given the insecurities of the pandemic scenario and the way in which the pandemic affects and is perceived by rural populations, there is still a need to create qualified spaces for access to scientific information as well as health guidelines for these people.

Education, peasantry and pandemic of COVID-19: reflections from an extension project of a Brazilian public university

This paper analyzed the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic for education in rural communities in which students with a Degree in Rural Education from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil) work and/or reside. The study refers to a broader research, linked to the extension project "Peoples of the Field and the COVID-19 pandemic", created in April 2020. The methodological course of the investigation consisted in the application of online questionnaires in two moments of the pandemic in Brazil (April/May and July 2020). These instruments were answered by 36 (thirty-six) students in the first stage and by 46 (forty-six) students in the second stage. The data were analyzed from the two moments of the research, described and compared to the literature in the rural education area. Thus, at first, a greater movement was observed to keep schools closed and, in the second moment, attempts were observed to establish an emergency remote education with distribution of materials and classes/online contacts. We evidence that the pandemic exposed and accentuated inequalities in school supply in the Brazilian public network, highlighting the historical precariousness of public policies aimed at the education of peasant populations.

HEALTH, PANDEMIC AND RURAL PEOPLE: analyzes from an extension project

This paper was interested in knowing the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health (social practice and public policies) of subjects and communities in the field in which students of rural education degree courses of the Faculty of Education Federal University of Minas Gerais (LECampo / FaE / UFMG) work and / or reside. This research is linked to the extension project "Peasantry and the COVID-19 pandemic", created in April 2020. The research methods consisted of the application of surveys with closed and open questions, answered by 36 students in the first stage (end of April / beginning of May 2020) and by 46 students in the second stage (mid-July 2020). The data were analyzed through content analysis and categories were constructed in dialogue with some SUS principles: a) health practices in the face of the pandemic;b) access and disclosure of information;c) public health actions, which included access to health services, systemic care and the establishment of priorities, and d) the country-city relationship. With the internalization of Covid-19, the fragility in the health system with centralization in urban centers became evident, evidencing the precarious historical assistance in small towns and in the countryside. Among other results, the reduction of access to public policies, especially health, by the rural population of the country persists. The fight for 'Educacao do Campo' is emphasized as a strategy in defense of the valorization of rural workers, family agriculture, ways of life and rural development.

Religious practices, COVID-19 and peasantry: a two-part analysis of the pandemic from an extension project

This paper analyzed the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on religious practices of peasant subjects and rural communities in which students of the Degree in Rural Education of the Faculty of Education of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (LECampo/FaE UFMG) work and residency. This is an extract from an investigation that is linked to the extension project "The people of the countryside and the COVID-19 pandemic", created in April 2020. The methodological paths of the investigation consisted of the application of questionnaires with closed questions and open, answered by 36 students in the first stage (April/May 2020) and by 46 students in the second stage (July 2020). The data were analyzed by means of categorical content analysis. The results point to repercussions that relate to the following categories: a) socialization/sociability;b) interruption of activities in religious spaces;c) modes of remote participation in religious activities;d) hogar as a privileged place for remote religious practices;e) return from presential activities in collective religious spaces;f) relationship between pandemic, faith, punishment and divine protection.