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How Do New Critical Pedagogies Develop? Educational Innovation, Social Change, and Landless Workers in Brazil

How Do New Critical Pedagogies Develop? Educational Innovation, Social Change, and Landless Workers in Brazil

Rebecca Tarlau
2015
2015

Abstract

Over the past 30 years, the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has developed a series of pedagogical practices for public schools that support the movement’s struggle for agrarian reform in the Brazilian countryside. The MST’s educational initiatives can be viewed in terms of their place in the debate about how grassroots movements develop alternatives to dominant educational practices.

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Abstract

Over the past 30 years, the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has developed a series of pedagogical practices for public schools that support the movement’s struggle for agrarian reform in the Brazilian countryside. The MST’s educational initiatives can be viewed in terms of their place in the debate about how grassroots movements develop alternatives to dominant educational practices.

Social Movements

Landless Workers' Movement (MST)

Keywords

Latin America, Pedagogy, Popular Education, Public Schooling

Theme

Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements and Education

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Rebecca Tarlau