As conquistas da Educação do Campo e o avanço da extrema-direita: desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

The pressure of socio-territorial movements of struggle for land, in articulation with different institutions of organized civil society and, associated with that, who assumed education for countryside schools as public policy contributed to the strengthening of Countryside Education. In this collective commitment, the objective was to guarantee the creation and maintenance of schools in rural spaces with a pedagogical proposal linked to their reality, to invest in the training of teachers to serve these rural schools and prepare teaching materials for this population. These actions were guaranteed by public policies established within the National Countryside Education Program (PRONACAMPO). One of these policies was the National Field Textbook Program (PNLD-Campo). This context favours strengthening the movement organized by agribusiness sectors to control education in the Brazilian agrarian space. In this sense, this paper discusses a brief history of Rural Education and public educational policies aimed at the field. Furthermore, it points out some of the current disputes that encompass the education of the/in the field and the relationship of these disputes with the increase in the power of the agrarian elites from 2016, demonstrating how land concentration is in the basis of these processes. Finally, we point how urgent is an articulation to confront the neoliberal advance on State and Rural Education.