Juventude, formação, cultura e política: a experiência do curso de Residência Agrária jovem em Santa Catarina

Abstract

The article presents a reflection about the experience of the Young Agrarian Residence course held in Santa Catarina. Its general objective is to understand the importance of training and schooling the youth linked to the MST. Based on the study and analysis of youth participation in the organization and struggles of the working class, with reference to research that addresses this theme, it has been shown that there are still few studies and research that address the youth of the field linked to the MST and that youth, as well as other rural workers, have experienced a long process of exclusion, which is reflected mainly in the absence of access to education, health and culture. Concerned with the training of young people, the MST has sought to make it possible through partnerships to carry out educational and training activities for the youth of the settlements and camps. The Youth Residency course provided young people with moments of political, cultural and artistic training, living in the university, exchanging experiences, understanding and experiencing the contradictions and limits of life in the MST settlements and camps, as well as making it possible to form youth and the strengthening of the Landless identity.