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In the countryside of Minas Gerais state (MG), the absolute growth in the period between 1991 and 2010 was of 371,82%, which is a bit higher than the National growth (309,41%). Such context raises questions about the forms of polarization and the students’ pendular fluxes between regional centres. In this article I evaluate these fluxes and the patterns of distribution of the networks of students’ pendular motion among the regional centres of the countryside of MG based on the data of the Demographic Census of 2010. I analysed students’ pendular movements from 22 centres located in the exact centre of the state, which I named “subregionals” for the purposes of this paper. My interpretation was built through the evaluation of the networks of spatial distribution compared with the measurement of the Average Weighed Distance (DMp in Portuguese) and with the Rate of Students’ Pendular Movements (RPe in Portuguese), which allowed me to distinguish between the students’ and workers’ movements. The results I obtained reveal the magnitude of the interregional movements and a higher spatial encompassment of the polarization of five regional centres, seats of Federal Universities. Fifteen municipalities have shown an RPe higher than 1, which means they present a prevalence of students’ pendularmovements, revealing the importance of the educational institutions’ role in the spatial dynamics of the population.||No interior do estado de Minas, o crescimento total bruto de matrículas no ensino superior, entre 1991 e 2010, foi de 371,82%, relativamente maior do que o nacional (309,41%). Cabe, portanto, uma análise sobre as formas de polarização e as características da mobilidade pendular de estudantes na rede de centros regionais no estado. Neste artigo, avaliam-se os fluxos e os padrões de distribuição das redes de pendularidade de estudantes entre os centros regionais do interior do estado de Minas Gerais, tendo como base os dados do Censo Demográfico de 2010. Foram analisados os movimentos de pendularidade de estudantes de vinte e dois centros considerados de alta centralidade, aqui denominados sub-regionais. A interpretação foi elaborada por meio da avaliação das redes de distribuição espacial, conjugada com a mensuração de indicadores como a Distância Média ponderada (DMp) e a Razão de pendularidade escolar (RPe), o que permitiu a distinção dos movimentos estudantil e laboral. Os resultados indicam a magnitude de deslocamentos intrarregionais e maior abrangência espacial de polarização de cinco sub-centros regionais. Quinze municípios apresentaram RPe maior que um, ou seja, possuem a prevalência na atração da pendularidade estudantil, o que mostra a relevância do papel das instituições de ensino na atração populacional.AbstractNETWORKS OF STUDENTS’ PENDULAR MOVEMENTS FOR THE SUBREGIONAL POLES OF THE COUNTRYSIDE OF MINAS GERAISIn the countryside of Minas Gerais state (MG), the absolute growth in the period between 1991 and 2010 was of 371,82%, which is a bit higher than the National growth (309,41%). Such context raises questions about the forms of polarization and the students’ pendular fluxes between regional centres. In this article I evaluate these fluxes and the patterns of distribution of the networks of students’ pendular motion among the regional centres of the countryside of MG based on the data of the Demographic Census of 2010. I analysed students’ pendular movements from 22 centres located in the exact centre of the state, which I named “subregionals” for the purposes of this paper. My interpretation was built through the evaluation of the networks of spatial distribution compared with the measurement of the Average Weighed Distance (DMp in Portuguese) and with the Rate of Students’ Pendular Movements (RPe in Portuguese), which allowed me to distinguish between the students’ and workers’ movements. The results I obtained reveal the magnitude of the interregional movements and a higher spatial encompassment of the polarization of five regional centres, seats of Federal Universities. Fifteen municipalities have shown an RPe higher than 1, which means they present a prevalence of students’ pendular movements, revealing the importance of theeducational institutions’ role in the spatial dynamics of the population.
