Abstract

RIBEIRO, Marlene. Rural education: the expropriation of practical knowledge to the expropriation of peasant land. Rev. Reflex [online]. 2014, vol.22, n.2, pp.323-346. ISSN 1982-9949.  https://doi.org/10.17058/rea.v22i2.0323.

The article discusses the relationship between work in agriculture, fishing, cattle raising or in the collection, and education offered to rural peasant populations, which breaks with this relationship and thus strengthens the separation between town and country, essential to sustaining the capitalist mode of production. Considering a common curriculum, the state subject the rural education, to the same guidelines that regulate urban education, functioning as an instrument of control for rural populations and land use, essential means of production. In this process, rural education promotes practical knowledge expropriation of peasant labor, opening up a path to the expropriation of land.

Keywords : Work- Education; Rural Education; History of Rural Education.

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