The country school - the peasant community - the university: Agroecological Educational Practice - a web of relationships in the resistance of collective subjects.
Peasant Education; Agroecology; Knowledge Production; Transformative praxis
This research, developed in the line Environmental Education and Peasant Education, of the Postgraduate Program in Education at Universidad de Brasília from 2022 to 2024. The main goal was to analyze how collective subjects organized in the web of relationships that involve the Rural School, the peasant community and the public university materialize the Agroecological Educational Praxis. The research was based on the relationships established between the school named Escola de Ensino Médio do Campo Florestan Fernandes (EEMFF) and the settlement community of Assentamento Santana, both located in the municipality of Monsenhor Tabosa - Ceará - Brazil. The approaches to the State University of Ceará (UECE) were also the object of analysis, especially through the agroecological praxis developed since 2018. The epistemological basis of this work is the Dialectic Historical Materialism. The main instruments used for immersion in reality were: observations of the educational process at EEMFF and in the community of Assentamento Santana/CE; semi-structured interviews with educators from EEMFF and UECE, with EEMFF students and members of the MST Production and Education Sector in the Settlement and in the state; discussion groups with individuals who work in different areas in Santana community; field diary records. From the production and analysis of the data, it was found that the collective subjects of this community, strengthened by the organization in the MST and occupying the knowledge production spaces at the public universities, began to promote transformative praxis in the school and in the community, as well as bringing about approaches in the university with struggles, history and peasant culture, breaking with commonly hierarchical and standardized ways of producing knowledge.