“O sonho da terra livre”: MST e educação - as vivências e as experiências muito além dos processos educativos formais

Abstract

This study discusses the difficulties faced by the Itinerant Schools (EIs) in the Cajati Complex Camps in Cascavel, in Western Paraná, analyzing the difference between the education of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and the State's formal neoliberal model. From the encampment to the Settlement, the MST demonstrated that the organized struggle of the dispossessed was the path to land conquest. By developing its own Pedagogical Proposal, the Movement advocates for an Education of the Countryside and for the Countryside, aiming at the construction of a new social project. The study highlights the challenges faced in the transition of the EIs to formal Schools, as well as the community's resistance against the State's attempt to subordinate their Education to an entrepreneurial logic. The research analyzes the viewpoint of the people involved in the EIs' transition process—teachers, staff, and community members. By problematizing the administrative transition of the EIs as a historical process marked by disputes, the complexity of the forms of struggle and daily resistance undertaken by the community to maintain the Movement's Pedagogical Project was understood.