A RELAÇÃO EDUCAÇÃO E AGROECOLOGIA: UM ESTUDO SOBRE EXPERIÊNCIAS EM ESCOLAS DO MST, NO PARANÁ

Abstract

The research approaches the relationship between education and agroecology in the MST and a study on experiences developed in six schools linked to the Movement in Paraná. Its objectives were: understand how was the process of incorporating agroecology in MST and its educational project; make explicit the concept of agroecology of the Movement; identify materials produced on agroecology by or in partnership with MST; to analyze six experiences of agroecology education in itinerant and settlement schools linked to the MST / Paraná and to understand the social function of the schools linked to it in the construction of agroecology. To carry out this research work, with a qualitative approach, we used as methodological procedures bibliographical research, documentary research and field research. We ordered the bibliographic reference and the analysis based on the theoretical categories State, Capitalism, Agrarian Question, Agroecology, Education, School, Human Emancipation. The theoretical exposition is organized in three chapters. In the first chapter, entitled "State and agriculture in Brazil: the agrarian bases and the nature of capitalist development in the countryside", we discuss the nature of the State and the determinations of the Brazilian reality that consolidated the capitalist development project in the countryside, as well as the insertion of agribusiness as a hegemonic model, fruit of multiple movements of capital in agriculture, in a contradictory historical process, linked to the private ownership and monopoly of the land. In the second chapter, entitled "Insertion of agroecology in the Brazilian context and the process of its incorporation in the struggle of the Landless Rural Workers Movement - MST", we present elements to understand the insertion of agroecology in the Brazilian reality and the incorporation of agroecology in MST, which shows an extension of his conception and his perspective of struggle. In the third chapter, entitled "Experiences and practices of agroecology in itinerant and settlement schools linked to the MST in Paraná: the social function of the school in the construction of agroecology", we explain how the incorporation of agroecology in the educational work of the school materializes, through the analysis of experiences developed in six schools linked to the MST in Paraná, which indicate some ways to transform the capitalist school form and synthesize the challenge assumed by the MST, by adopting agroecology as the basis for the construction of the People’s Agrarian Reform and for the formation of the new generation of peasants. One of the central issues is the necessary relationship between education and work, which has agroecology how a potential to materialize and can contribute, even partially, to human emancipation.