Educação do campo e sustentabilidade no caso do Assentamento Massangana III/PB

Abstract

This work aims to know the reality of family farming and the sustainability of rural workers in the areas settled in Paraíba from the daily observation of the settlement called Massangana III, in the municipality of Cruz do Espírito Santo - PB, seeking to understand the political organization and of the workers as well as the practices of land use and occupation. It presents as main theoretical references Molina, Caldart, Freire, Pereira, Boff, Batista and the Operational Guidelines for a basic education of the field, and as results the realization that: the workers continue to be exploited since the colonial time, that the Field Education is far from becoming a reality within the camp schools; sustainability is made unfeasible by lack of resources, adequate infrastructure, lack of water; permanent use of agrochemicals affecting the soil, the environment and workers' health; the social and union movements are in a state of dormancy; academic studies and discourses are far beyond reality with rare exceptions; the peasants are deprived of assistance of the most diverse segments such as health, education, public policies; that the workers in their bases need support and accompaniment, to return to the roots and to make happen in practice the principles and the concepts of the education of the field.