The Education of Landless Workers’ Movement: Transform Society from People’s Reality

Abstract

In addition to the agrarian reform, the Landless Workers’ Movement has, among its objectives, the struggle for democratization of education and knowledge. Therefore, it works to provide literacy, education and political formation to youth and adults, and invests in training teachers who work in the movement. The Florestan Fernandes National School in Guararema (SP) is one of its achievements; it is a model of university that does not offer a diploma, but provides courses for organized groups of society, such as the militants of the movement, indigenous people, foreigners from Latin America and Africa. In this interview, Simone Pereira, one of the pedagogical coordinators of the movement, explains the operation of the school and the educational structure of the movement.