Juventudes rurais e educação na produção do conhecimento das pós-graduações das áreas de ciências humanas e sociais aplicadas do nordeste brasileiro

The article aims to discuss, under educational processes, the production of knowledge about rural youth, particularly in the years 2007 to 2016. These research cuts seek to situate the social process of a scientific course linked to the production of researchers of the programs of graduate studies in Northeast Brazil from the areas of applied human and social sciences, specifically the characteristics that make it possible to show the profile of the authors with the theme, as well as the strategies used theoretically and methodologically in the understanding of this social group in its link with education. In order to do so, the study sought to carry out a state - of - the - art study under the qualitative approach, with field - collection and questionnaire open instruments; and interpretation - the Bardin Content Analysis technique and the IRAMUREQ and EXCEL softwares. In the trajectory of the authors of theses and dissertations, they have been dedicated to work on research on the subject in a different way throughout their career, but little to teaching and extension activities. The themes of the studies reveal singularities, but also master lines that allow to situate theoretically-methodologically, which exceed the structural-functionalists currents, phenomenological and post-structuralist ones. Therefore, it was observed the authorial origin of the academic works, with discussions that have brought new paths for the production of the Graduate Programs, allowing to rethink the fields of knowledge of the Humanities and Applied Social Sciences areas.