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URBAN, Samuel Penteado. Popular Education and Resistence: the popular health schools in East Timor. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2019, vol.44, e34613.  Epub 11-Nov-2020. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644434613.

East Timor is the first democracy to establish itself as such in the 21st century. As the Indonesian invasion in 1975, there was investment in the construction of schools - from kindergarten to higher education - based on ideologically integrative and oppressive education. In contrast, internally the struggle for the restoration of independence against the Indonesian invasion led by the Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor, began a Popular Education process that had great theoretical influence from Paulo Freire, Mao Tse-Tung and Amilcar Cabral. This process was linked to the political awareness and daily knowledge of the students themselves in favor of teaching contextualized to the needs of struggle. Among the manifestations of this pedagogy, we highlight in this article, popular health schools, which through external knowledge (modern science) added to local knowledge to Timor, health centers were created where medicines were produced, services offered of health to the population and the formation of paramedics to work in a guerrilla environment. The objective of this study will be to make notes about popular education in East Timor, with emphasis on popular health schools, as well as to perform a epistemological reading. Thus, the present article is characterized as a historiographic study that has as data different sources (from the literature and empirical from the interviews). More specifically, the data collection took the form of bibliographical research and semi-structured interviews with the main ones involved in the current Popular Education of East Timor.

Palabras clave : Popular Education; Epistemologies of the South; East Timor.

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