Revista Brasileira de Educação
Print version ISSN 1413-2478
Abstract
MESQUITA, Rui Gomes de Mattos de and NASCIMENTO, Gisele Wanessa do. Brazil's landless rural workers' movement (MST) education and the crisis of the modern science paradigm. Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.59, pp.1077-1099. ISSN 1413-2478. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-24782014000900013.
We have analyzed the principle of alternation in the MST pedagogical practices, adopted by the National Program of Education in Agrarian Reform, in order to know - assuming those practices interpolate the attempt of pragmatism to harmonize individuals and society - how this principle can produce "creative" individuals. The methodology articulates Maingueneau, Laclau and Mesquita. We have built four categories (power elevation; necessity of establishing relations with institutional milieus; tension with these milieus; ideological desire of universalization) and three analytical dimensions (methodology; spatiality; finality). Within this methodology, we have analyzed two MST documents (one public and one restricted to MST), four interviews (3 members and a teacher), as well as scientific articles by intellectuals involved with MST. We have concluded that to conduct creatively the experience means to break with the cumulative notion of principles.
Keywords : MST; Experience; Alternation; Knowledge Production.