Reality inventory: peasants knowledge, knowledge and subjects in prose and rhymes

Abstract

The present article intends to socialize the collective, dialectical, dialogical and praxic investigative work of the school inserted in the Contagem Settlement - Federal District - Brazil, entitled Escola Classe Sonhém de Cima: the knowledge and actions of the field with prose and rhymes with the main objective of resignify the identity of the rural school, based on the materialization of the construction of the social, historical, cultural and environmental inventory. The specific objectives: to know the history of the establishment of the Contagem Settlement, with the arrival of the squatters and the Landless in the occupation of the vacant farm until the conquest of the land and to recognize the peasant culture, in particular, the ways of life production on the land for produce food and the pride of being peasants. The pedagogical actions were: work with the land, law, work and food axes; visit to community and family spaces (shed, bakery, flour house, crops and homes) with the mediation of peasants; conversation with settlers and community agents; analysis of photos from the book Terra by Sebastião Salgado; interpretation of poems by Cora Coralina and Pedro Munhoz; construction of standards; presentation of the theatrical performance The Count of Contagem. The registration of the actions had photos, videos, texts and drawings produced by Coletivo Girassol. The investigative work contributed to the students' learning: they knew the struggle, the persistence and the resistance of the historical peasant subjects, who conquered the land to live, work and produce food and understood the importance of the land for the constitution of the identity of the peasant peoples.

Keywords: school, reality inventory and peasant identity.