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Yesterday and Today: (Extra)Ordinary Records in an Area of Agrarian Reform in Brazil
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Sachs, Línlya; Aparecida Paião, Cintia; Alves, Whendelly L.L. – Power and Education, 2023
This paper aims to present two potential instruments that will address the lack of knowledge in regard to the context of students' reality from teaching professionals in a specific school, these being: a local historiography (record of "yesterday"), based on oral history; and a reality inventory (record of "today"), elaborated…
Descriptors: Historiography, Oral History, Action Research, Social Action
An Education in Gender and Agroecology in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement
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Schwendler, Sônia Fátima; Thompson, Lucia Amaranta – Gender and Education, 2017
This article explores the implications of a blended agroecology and gender education within "Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement" (MST). The discussion is first situated within MST's struggle for land and for peasant families' livelihoods, generally, and under neoliberalism, specifically. Central to the struggle against…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Agricultural Laborers, Foreign Countries, Social Action
The Landless Workers Movement's Itinerant Schools: Occupying and Transforming Public Education in Brazil
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Mariano, Alessandro; Tarlau, Rebecca – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article explores how social movement co-governance of public education offers an alternative to neoliberal educational models. The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) is one of the largest social movements in Latin America. We describe one of the many schools that the MST co-governs, the Itinerant School Paths of Knowledge (Caminhos do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Social Action, Agricultural Laborers