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MARCON, Telmo. Os movimentos sociais populares como educadores: contribuições teóricas e políticas. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2012, vol.37, n.03, pp.495-508. ISSN 1984-6444.

The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the educational dimension of popular social movements and, from such a viewpoint, to identify their critical and emancipatory educational potentialities. The main issue is to understand how popular social movements are educational, not only to their militants, but also to social organizations, the State and society as a whole. In order to meet such challenges, references have been drawn on contributions by Boaventura de Sousa Santos so as to validate criticism to the hegemonic epistemology, particularly the monoculture of knowledge and linear time, contrasting it to the southern epistemology stressing the ecologies of knowledge and temporality. In order to provide validity to the perspective of temporalities, other contributions have been considered, such as those by Walter Benjamin and Edward Thompson. Finally, the experience of organization of landless farmers in the early 1980s in Encruzilhada Natalino, Ronda Alta/RS is analyzed. That encampment is crucial not only for its crucial contribution to the organization of the Landless Movement (MST), but also for the educational dimension of its militants, as well as leadership formation and the formulation of other assumptions, particularly when land and agricultural policies are concerned.

Palabras clave : Popular Social Movements; Education; Politics.

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