Abstract

USUGA SANCHEZ, SERGIO ALEJANDRO; BERNAL VERA, MARÍA ELENA  and  RAMIREZ, ÉLMER CASTAÑO. ETHICAL VALUES IN DECISIONS OF SMALL FARMERS CONFRONTED WITH AGRONOMY STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS (UNIVERSIDAD DE CALDAS, COLOMBIA). Luna Azul [online]. 2011, n.32, pp.61-81. ISSN 1909-2474.

In this work, values that guide small farmers when facing production decisions, collective life and environment, in confrontation with the perceptions of the Agronomy alumni from Universidad de Caldas are determined. Using a descriptive methodology, three small farmer communities were worked with to designate their values using a semi-structured interview which results were used to apply a survey to students and agronomists. Agreement and disagreement points were identified and formative proposals in agronomic ethics rose. Small farmers identify their collective expression values: responsibility, family, tradition, work, honesty, cooperation, solidarity, education as a desired value; and as individual expression values: pride, membership, welfare, self-sufficiency. All the students from the Faculty coincide in recognizing some of the central social values stated by the agricultural producers such as: responsibility, solidarity, work, cooperation; as they progress in their professional education, they add other values but when they graduate they focus on the two first ones. Hypothetically, the Agronomy Program students are placed in post-conventional levels in Kohlberg's value scale. However, when they graduate it seems to be they back down in their conceptions while in superior levels and among the alumni conventional and pre-conventional levels appear.

Keywords : Small farmers values; farmer vs. agronomists values confrontation; perception of values in Agronomy students.

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