Ethnomathematics and the Brazilian Landless people education

Abstract

The present study describes and analyses an investigation, shich was developed at a settlement of the Brazilian Landless Movement, a social movement organised to achieve land reform in Brazil. The main purpose of the research consisted in preparing and implementing pedagogical work in the field of mathematics education, from an ethnomathematics perspective, at a public school connected to the Landless Movement, looking at its educational repercussions. They are discussed in this study with regard to the relationship between the pedagogical principles enunciated by the movement for its schools and the perspective of ethnomathematics. The research done showed the potential for this contribution, indicating the possibilities of a specific area of knowledge participating in the construction of an education connected to the interests of the social groups which, throughout history, have been marginalized and excluded.