More than soil and classroom

fruitful and necessary links between agroecology, countryside education and peasant resistance

Abstract

This article aims to discuss Countryside Education and Agroecology, from the perspective of peasant resistance, especially that of the Landless Workers Movement (MST). The elaboration took place through a qualitative approach, which brings contributions based on bibliographic research. The text is organized into two sections: "Agroecology as a peasant and popular project"; and, "The relationship between Countrysude Education and Agroecology". As a result, the historical importance of peasant societies in politics and ecological sustainability is highlighted. It is demonstrated that social movements, especially MST and its Land Reform project, are crucial tools for the current struggle of the peasantry, laying the foundations for Agroecology as opposed to agribusiness. In this context, Countryside Education promotes the countryside as a space of potentialities, linking education to the materiality of life and qualifying the performance of the subjects of reality for a broader movement of social transformation. Since the school is seen as a space of contradiction, studies and learning, it can be concluded that, as much as the education projects are in dispute, the initiatives promoted by the rural school are subject to projection, political leap and capillarity, as is the case of the work with Agroecology.