THE GEOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE: CONSTRUCTING THE GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE WITH THE PEASANTS MOVEMENTS

Abstract

The capacity of transformation of the geography itself must to the fact of the same one possess an intrinsic relation with the reality.  From the reality, the geography must develop in the Student-Peasant the capacity of interpret critically the reality with the objective of foment a transforming action about that reality.  Thus, the geography has that to propitiate to the students conditions for can think the relations socio-spatial and its contradictions of class, inherent to its reality.  In this sense, establishing a relation between the Geography and the Education of the Countryside, the peasant social movements, do not produce only one fight by a better distribution of land and income, but they produce, also, a struggle by the construction of an appropriate pedagogy with the fight and with the process of production and reproduction material and symbolic of the peasant class.  The educational formation related with the social movements, in order to form peasants compromised with the collective causes of our society, that can be militants of the social movements, is contemplated by the logic that permeates the construction of the Special Course Graduation Geography for Settlers (CEGeo) in the UNESP/FCT, Presidente Prudente (covenant Incra/Pronera).