THE STUDY AS AN EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLE AND THE QUESTION OF READING IN THE PEDAGOGY OF MOVEMENT

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present notes on study as an educational principle in the Pedagogy of Movement, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), with emphasis on the topic of reading. This is a documental and bibliographic research, based mainly on texts by the MST and by authors dedicated to the themes at hand. Education occupies a strategic space in the process of self-organization of the Landless organization. The Movement presents study as one of its organizational and educational principles. Several MST documents mention or refer, directly or indirectly, to the question of reading, writing and/or arithmetic. Thus, the study, which includes the readings, is configured as a key element for the process of self-organization, (auto)education, self-support and democratic management in the various activities of the MST, in the political, cultural and, mainly, economic spheres, which is fundamental for the material and symbolic reproduction of this Movement.