Projeto educativo do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST): elementos políticos e concepção contra-hegemônica na proposta educativa-formativa?

Abstract

In this work we present, from theoretical and methodological foundations of the field of historical-critical tradition, the relationship between the political project of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), and its educational project elements present in it that could possibly give rise to one counter-hegemonic conception. Hegemony as a practice conforms positioning and political behavior, which we hereby do permeated by conceptions, values and ideologies. Thus, the groundwork for sediment sewing consensus, adherence to societal projects. Therefore, this study is limited to the orbit itself Political Sociology. So here is intended to unravel the educational proposal of the MST, from their educational principles, in order to understand whether or not a counter-hegemonic conception, which abounds collaboratively based militant. Therefore, the range of responses to issues raised availed himself so fundamental theoretical canons developed by Antonio Gramsci, especially in categories hegemony, counter-hegemony and Expanded State. The analyzes undertaken so delimited as field research, the organization of MST in the State of Pernambuco. In this study education earns significant relief, however, not as formal educational activities to teach systematically how to do something, or share knowledge, but rather as a tool for training and dissemination of political culture. In a brief reflection regarding the issue, it is first noted the historical constitution of the MST, considering the conditions that have joined and contributed to the formation of the movement. Is also presented here as a backdrop, the contemporary historical context, while it sought to put it in parallel with the political processes in vogue, whose collective subjects are inserted, in an attempt to understand how the MST presents this scenario and especially reference as its educational project inserted in this process. Thus, the search result exposes the range of results that indicates the presence in the educational proposal MST benchmarks targeted education of political elements that, despite present limits, to some extent presents potential tensioning the field of hegemony.