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DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Tarlau will discuss the educational initiatives of the Brazilian 
 Landless Workers Movement (MST), the largest agrarian social movement in 
 Latin America. Based on 17 months of field research living and working with 
 the MST over the past two years, Tarlau will first go over the origin of 
 the movement and how the MST’s political organizing has evolved over the 
 past thirty years. Although the MST is famous around the world for its 
 success forcing the Brazilian government to redistribute land, less well 
 known is the movement’s simultaneous fight for access to education in all 
 areas of agrarian reform. Part of this fight is for the movement’s right 
 to develop its own educational pedagogies and curriculum in public schools. 
 Over the past three decades members of the movement have drawn on a variety 
 of theorists to develop these educational practices, from Paulo Freire to 
 Soviet pedagogues. Tarlau will briefly talk about the the two Soviet 
 theorists the movement draws on—Moisey Pistrak and Anton Makarenko—and 
 how these theorists arrived in Brazil and the ways in which members of the 
 movement have adapted these theories to their contemporary context. Tarlau 
 will end by reflecting on how the MST’s conscious use of Soviet 
 pedagogies, as well as Freirean educational practices, is part of the 
 movement’s overarching goal of creating socialist economic alternatives 
 in the Brazilian countryside through collective organic farming.  
 Co-sponsored by the Task Force on the Americas.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/22/18713969.php
SUMMARY:The Landless Peasants Movement (MST) in Brazil
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/22/18713969.php
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