The relation of popular education Culture Circles with rural education

Abstract

The Circles of Culture are characterized as a democratic space for literacy, literacy and, above all, human formation. Based on this, this article aims to reflect on the human formation provided by the Culture Circles in the peasant community of Brejo Grande, located in the municipality of Campo Formoso, Bahia. To this end, the methodology has a qualitative approach as the nature of the research. In this vein, it was used the resource of the triangulation of sources between the narratives of life of a monitor and multiplier of the Crop Circles; the Documentary Research, which analyzed the personal file of the research collaborator; and Bibliographic Research, from reading, interpreting, annotating and discussing texts of reference authors in the area, such as Arroyo himself (2015), Paulo Freire (1970) and Reis (2011). Thus, we initially approached the origin of the Culture Circles in the municipality of Campo Formoso (BA) and its relation to the history of the spread of the Freirean method in the northern region of Bahia. At this juncture, an approximation was made between Paulo Freire's thought used in the Culture Circles and the pedagogical practice advocated by Rural Education. Furthermore, we reflected on the human formation present in these spaces and appropriated ontological categories of social being, as well as their importance for the humanization of individuals. In short, it was noticed that the Crop Circles of popular education are configured as a territory, where horizontal dialogue prevails and from the generating words that guarantee the teaching of contextualized education.