Abstract

JUNGEMANN, Beate  and  GUIMARAES N, Francis Mary. Redefinition of rural education from the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil, Paraná state: the case of mobile schools. Perf. de Coyunt. Econ. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.195-211. ISSN 1657-4214.

The Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in Brazil fights for an independent school education which is articulated on its purpose of a Popular Agrarian Reform. The Movement is in a tension between autonomy and institutionalization with the State. Itinerant Schools are the clear expression of the redefinition process of a public policy and express a contradiction. They represent an important advance in the realization of a new educational paradigm in construction from the real life of organized communities in occupied lands. Negotiations with the state Paraná for the legalization of the itinerant schools and the acceptation of their Political Pedagogical Project mean an achievement of their demands for the right to autonomous education in rural area. At the same time it involves the start of a bureaucratic-legal control by the State power that increases with the transition from camp to settlement. In this transitory process, Itinerant Schools become State and municipal Public Schools creating new challenges for MTS. These does not call into question the autonomy held in the ten years (2003-2013) of existence of Itinerant Schools organized and coordinated by MTS of Paraná.

Keywords : Redefinition of rural education policy; MST Brazil; Itinerant Schools; Paraná state.

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