Interview: Suze Silva Sales - Field Education and Land School: pedagogical and institutional experiences

Abstract

This interview is part of a broad research project that seeks to record different teaching and institutional experiences related to rural education. Before presenting the interview with Professor Suze Silva Sales, it is important to make some observations. I met Professor Suze when I arrived at the Federal University of Tocantins in 2014, from then on, we developed several successful activities, as well as, we established bonds of friendship. From my conversations with her and other Field Education researchers, I continue in this project, which is nothing more than a record of the experiences of teachers dedicated to Field Education. Upon learning about this project, Professor Suze gave us some of her time to conduct this interview. Author of several research projects and with the same dedication to studies on the education of Brazilian rural populations, Professor Suze was able to tell us a little about her academic trajectory, from the first experiences in the municipality of Patos de Minas, to her expectations about the strengthening of the course in the future and her experiences with the Escola da Terra in the state of Tocantins. So, I hope the reader will follow the interview granted – appropriating his own words – by a militant of rural education public policies.