Escola Família Agrícola: Propostas de Educação Transformadora

Abstract

This study is part of the Master’s degree dissertation of the Postgraduate Program in Science Teaching and Humanities, at the Federal University of Amazonas. The main objective of this research is to rebuild the proposal of the Agricultural Family School and Pedagogy of Alternation historically, in the French and Brazilian contexts, and it brings as an example its history at Guaporé Valley in Rondônia. The first experience of the Agricultural Family School took place in France (1935). In Brazil, the Agricultural Family School has origins in the Movement of Promotional Education Espírito Santo - MPEES. The Agricultural Family School, in Brazil, takes place through several initiatives that are influenced, specially, by the Basic Ecclesiastical Communities - BECs, linked to the Catholic Church, to the labor union movement of rural workers, carrying concepts from Paulo Freire’s theory, such as the desire to transform the reality in which we live in. The partial results of the research emphasize how much the Pedagogy of Alternation at Guaporé Valley was elaborated by local the rural people and it was concretized into a transformative education, in a region marked by the profit and exploitation of the western Amazon.