Educação do campo e formação no/pelo trabalho : experiências de homens e mulheres do Assentamento Sezínio Fernandes de Jesus, MST-ES

Abstract

This qualitative study aimed to analyze the processes by which women and men from MST Sezinio´s settlemen in ES build their knowledge and expertise, based on their experiences and practices in relation to the work field. Thus, the Participant research together with an anthropological research, were the research methodologies chosen to conduct the field work. The research participants were members of the settlements coordination, of the support groups, and thirty families to whom we “talked” in their houses, exploring their life stories through their speech as subjects who, for the most part, are going back to the countryside with working experiences in the city, without having any contact until then with the land labor. The studies from Walter Benjamin, Antônio Gramsci, Georg Lukács and E.P Thompson that deals with the concepts of work and experience, discussing also the country education were used as the theoretical bases of this study. The results suggest that there is an ongoing process of readapting the families to the rural areas, which goes against the concept of MST´s land reform, thus bringing to the Movement the challenge of designing a different development plan for these families that have established a new focus of the struggle for the land, not centered on the staying of this families on the land, but on their coming back to the rural areas, where new concepts of work in the rural areas emerge.