Perspectiva
Print version ISSN 0102-5473
Abstract
VENDRAMINI, Célia Regina. Os desafios do MST e da educação na atualidade brasileira. Perspectiva [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.02, pp.505-525. ISSN 0102-5473.
The paper proposes a reflection on the current struggles of the Movement of Landless Workers (MST) in the context of a Brazilian reality growing urbanization. From research conducted in recent years about the educational experience of MST is shown the emergency historical context of the Movement. This is based on the linkage between the economic, political and educational aspects; in the reaction of organized landless workers, their goals and forms of struggle, and specifically, in the importance given to education, and finally in the current challenges of the MST and its educational purposes. The Movement analyzed in this paper leads us to reflect on some theoretical and practical challenges today concerning the countryside and its connection with the city, and concerning to the break of the historical concentration of land ownership and wealth in Brazil. This is connected with the struggles of organized workers and their experiences of cooperation, self-management and education / schooling of their base. Their education is understood in its historical, social, economic and political context as being the result of social relations.
Keywords : Movement of Landless Workers (MST); Educacion and Social Movements; Work and Education.