Agroecology will only materialize as a scientific and development paradigm when professionals trained exist in the same logic. The Federal Institutes (IFs) were created in 2008. It proposes a new institutional framework capable of promoting an educational policy committed to local and regional sustainable development, besides outlining strategies for social inclusion. This article seeks, through document analysis, literature review and observation, analyze whether the Agroecology is a guiding paradigm of training itinerary of rural oriented courses of IFFarroupilha. The content of PPCs and PDI of rural oriented courses of IFFarroupilha demonstrate a certain dissonance with contents of the legal framework that establishing the IFs.

This way, despite the moment of construction of the new institution identity's, this may be being built from old paradigms. But the inclusion of ideas, curricular elements, bibliographies and a course aligned with the discourse of sustainable development and Agroecology, may represent a move that will lead to rethink the rural oriented training in IFFarroupilha.