This study guides the Graduation Course of Field Education offered by the Federal University
of Pará, Campus Cametá-PA, in the territory of the Tocantins region of the Amazon. Our
reflections are centered in the analysis of the relationship that this course establishes between
the qualification of the field educators and the popular educative practices for understanding
them as educative processes of human formation which come true by means of the
organizations, associations, social and union movements in the perspective of the social
transformation. The study has its bases in the Dialectic Historical Materialism to understand
the movement that involves the formation of field educators in the context of the popular
educative practices, enhancing the action of the educators in the popular spaces in the
perspective of the transformative praxis. We anchor to the concept of praxis, from the Marxist
theory and the Freirean conception, for we understand that both result in human intervention
in the reality in the perspective of transforming it. The theoretical venture was based on the
conceptual categories: Formation of Field Educators, Field Education, Territory and Popular
Educative Practice. The study was developed from the bibliographical and documental
analysis and field research. We used the questionnaire for data gathering, with both open and
closed questions, participant observation, and semi-structured interview. The information
gathered allowed us to construct three axes of analyses which aimed at identifying the
LEDOC contributions in the construction and affirmations of popular educative practices, in
the formation of field educators, they are: 1) The Tocantins region of the Amazon as a
territory of conflicts, resistance and of action of the field educator; 2) The LEDOC as a
request of the Social Field Movements of the Tocantins region of the Amazon, the entrance of
the 2014 class and the reconfiguration of the Pedagogical Project of the Course; 3) The
materiality of the formation in the LEDOC: challenges, tensions and possibilities. The results
reveal that the Graduation Course of Field Education contributes with the statement that
popular educative practices, especially with the definition of the formative axes that structure
the curriculum for they include in their curricular components: Studies of Popular Educative
Practices and Traineeship in Popular Organizations which, by means of tensions, limitations
and possibilities, enhance the acting of the field educators in the spaces of the organizations
and social movements that exist in the territory of the Tocantins region of the Amazon.
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