Os movimentos sociais na escola do campo: resgatando memórias e construindo cidadania através do conflito de Alagamar/PB

Abstract

For more than half a century, field education has been gaining more space in academic debates, in the theoretical and practical part, especially after the 1960s, in the 1970s and 1980s through the realization of the various social movements that have penetrated reality of Brazilian society. This paper aims to analyze some writings that deal with the conflict of the Peasants of the Great Alagamar as a way to rescue the memory of this movement that became known at national level through the basic characteristics of the Pacific movement and the contribution in the construction of the citizenship of the young students, relatives of the peasants who participated actively. This research practically arose from a practice of the teaching position and an experience in Youth Group in the religious activities, aiming to contribute to the perpetuation of the memory of the episodes during the conflict between the peasants living and the owners of the more than 700 families who resided in the 13 sites of the 13,000 hectares that corresponded to the territory of Fazenda do Grande Alagamar after the death of the landlord Mr. Aranaldo Maroja on November 7, 1975. The main historical cut of the research are the social movements of this conflict in the settlement, located in mostly in the municipality of Salgado de São Félix-PB, a movement that had full support from the CNBB, through the Archbishop of Paraíba at the time Dom José Maria Pires and other religious. The Social Movement established in Alagamar was "a symbol of nonviolent struggle", consecrated by Dom Helder Câmara, despite intense suffering through incomprehensible persecution, initially by the Directors, Mr. Arlindo Paulino and Dr. José Valdomiro Ribeiro Coutinho, in followed by the new owners of the farms.Activities that instigate us to search this past, rescuing the memory and carrying out an educational practice by an action research with the participation of twenty-three students of the ninth grade class of the Elementary School of the EFM State School Arnaldo Maroja through the popular writings that record the facts in cordel pamphlets, texts of the Hymn and the Cantata of Alagamar, through the great example of struggle or life lesson of the peasants, perceiving a change in the conceptual vision of the students, through the knowledge of the facts, thus contributing to the construction of the citizenship of young students and also peasants.