摘要:This paper is part of a research that aimed to analyze the technical and vocational education post-secondary level in technical courses linked to the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (TARE) in Pernambuco. From observations in the field, we found that in many cases, extension workers who perform TARE functions in Pernambuco come from technical courses offered by the Federal Government. Through Semi-structured interviews with students and other professionals of the institutions that were part of this research, we found the technical and professional level an disconnection similar to that seen by Callou et al. (2008) – about the low integration between what is produced in graduate school that is not supported in undergraduate teaching –. Education Technical Assistance and Rural Extension, outside the graduate level in Pernambuco, still marked by the Diffusion of Innovation Theory and Cartesian teaching methods.