Abstract

TEIXEIRA, Paulo Rogério de Oliveira  and  BARREIRA, Luiz Carlos. The uncommon path of a popular education teacher. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.20, e054.  Epub Jan 29, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v20-2021-54.

This article discusses the professional life of a popular education teacher, who began teaching while still a teenager on a coffee farm in the state of Paraná, Brazil. As an adult living in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, she drew near the Landless Workers’ Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra - MST) and became active in it. Due to this activism, she was able to earn a degree in Ecopedagogy (Pedagogia da Terra), with specialization in the use of native and landrace seeds in agriculture. It is no coincidence that she now advocates education from the rural area for the rural area, that is, an education conceived and practiced by those who, like her, live in rural encampments and settlements. The life path of this educator was reconstructed through interviews conducted according to research procedures observed by historians active in the field of Oral History. Narration of this story was conducted in the same way; it was conceived, structured, and produced according to such procedures, especially those related to a particular technique called interview transcreation.

Keywords : Popular Education; Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra - MST; Comuna da Terra Irmã Alberta.

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