Escola Técnica em Agroecologia Luana Carvalho - uma experiência do MST

Abstract

This work consists of an individual effort by an educator-activist to research and reflect on the agroecological experience built at the Technical School in Agroecology Luana Carvalho, located at the Josiney Hipólito settlement, at Km 15 of the Ituberá x Gandu highway in Bahia. In the development of this work, a qualitative methodology was used with two instruments for the elaboration of data: monitoring and survey of the activities developed and interviews, using tape recorder and in the dependencies of the educators' houses, both between 2018 and 2019 The School is a rural, agroecological school and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST). Through the study it was possible to verify that the Agroecology built by the Luana Carvalho School is the result of the political maturation of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, opposing to the performance and the consequences of capitalism in the field, currently configured as agribusiness, affirming it in the Popular Agrarian Reform project as his counterproposal. The MST's Principles of Education, based on socialist pedagogy, will give Agroecology a development that contemplates the interdisciplinary and omnilateral formation of the human being, going through different dimensions such as environmental, social, economic, educational, cultural, ethical and technical, all in a perspective of transformation of capitalist relations and construction of another society. Contradictory elements are presented as a way to stimulate the continuous advancement of the praxis of the ETALC.