Field education: a story of fight and resistance

Abstract

Abstract : This article aims to present a brief discussion about the historicity of the Brazilian’s Rural Education. It adds, to this record, the last three major events in the field of the Pedagogy of Alternation and, in a general sense, to the Rural Education historical itself. It brings considerations of the second National Conference of the Agrarian Reform Educators (II ENERA), also the 50^th anniversary of the Espírito Santo’s Proportional Educational Movement (MEPES), precursor of Brazilian’s Pedagogy of Alternation and the notes to the International Workshop of Brazilian’s 50 years Pedagogy of Alternation.

Keywords: Rural Education. Pedagogy of Alternation. Social movements in the countryside