- Title
- Learning, and transformation: an overview of education within the landless workers' movement in Brazil
- Creator
- Tarlau, Rebecca; de Moraes, Marli Zimmerman; Witcel, Elisabete; Thapliyal, Nisha
- Relation
- Postcolonial Directions in Education Vol. 3, Issue 1, p. 18-41
- Relation
- http://www.um.edu.mt/pde/index.php/pde1/issue/view/7
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education, University of Malta
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This article provides an introduction to the Brazilian social movement known as the Landless Workers Movement (MST). After a brief history of the landless struggle and the international organisation of the movement, the article discusses educational philosophy and practice in the MST. The MST actively cultivates a 'culture of study' within all the diverse spaces of the movement including (but not limited to) its schools and literacy programmes, political education, agricultural production, and culture and media communications. These processes of knowledge production and dissemination are informed by the philosophical principles that constitute the MST 'Pedagogy of the Land'. which links anti-capitalist struggles for land, education, and culture. Readers are also provided with an extensive reference list on publications about and by the MST - in English and Portuguese.
- Subject
- Landless Workers Movement (MST); Brazil; educational philosophy; political education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1302921
- Identifier
- uon:20576
- Identifier
- ISSN:2304-5388
- Language
- eng
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