Essays on a new school form in rural education: experience of the Caminhos do Saber Itinerant School in Parana

Abstract

The text presents essays on a new school form, based on the experience of the Itinerant School Caminhos do Saber, located in the Maila Sabrina camp, in the state of Parana, Brazil, and seeks to understand advances and challenges for the consolidation of a school that responds to the interests peasants of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). It also dialogues with the pedagogical practice built and consolidated in schools in the countryside of Parana, identified in the continuing education of educators of the School to Land Program, corresponding to experiences that seek to break with the school form consolidated in capitalism and that meet the interests of workers, peasants, among other marginalized and excluded populations by this mode of production. Furthermore, it articulates the principles of Rural Education, the pedagogical practices of peasant schools and the consolidated experience in the itinerant school. This article is the result of a participatory research and its authors work in the school as educators, dedicating themselves to the themes of rural schools and, in particular, of itinerant schools. Finally, it presents possible strategies for the consolidation of a school organization that points to the overcoming of the capitalist school form within schools or that, at least, points to some elements while still living under the aegis of this system.