EDUCAÇÃO DO CAMPO E PRODUÇÃO AGROECOLÓGICA NO ASSENTAMENTO ROSELI NUNES, MIRASSOL D’OESTE-MT: ESTRATÉGIAS DE (RE)CRIAÇÃO DA JUVENTUDE CAMPONESA

Abstract

The Roseli Nunes Settlement is located in the rural area of the municipality of Mirassol D'Oeste-MT. The Agrarian Reform land is the result of a struggle that began in the MST camp at Fazenda Facão, in the municipality of Cáceres-MT. The camp was formed by families displaced from various regions of the country, organized into grassroots groups to meet the needs of the collective, namely: health, education, food, work, hygiene, finance and communication. The campers stayed at Fazenda Facão for a year, as they were waiting for another area to be inspected, Fazenda Prata, an estate that the MST had been claiming from INCRA since 1996. It was only in 2001 that possession was granted and the rural property was divided into 331 plots. The aim of this thesis is to understand the importance of Rural Education and Agroecology as strategies for the (re)creation, resistance and permanence of peasant youth in the Roseli Nunes Settlement, in order to continue the reproduction of the peasant way of life. The method of analysis in this study is based on historical-dialectical materialism, emphasizing the debate on the category of contradiction in order to grasp the particularities of the Roseli Nunes Settlement, a stage for the struggle of the peasant class marked by territorial conflicts and the interests of the dominant classes. In the process of territorializing themselves, the peasants found ways of (re)creating and confronting capital in Agroecology and Field Education, and so they built the Madre Cristina State School, a symbol of the strength of resistance, above all, a reference point for organization, since its curriculum includes Agroecology and the training of critical and participatory young people. However, we understand that Education in the Countryside and agroecological production have allowed young peasants to have alternatives to continue in the countryside, without the need to abandon the land they had conquered. The young peasants who have remained in the Roseli Nunes Settlement carry with them respect for the land and continued resistance to the hegemonic rentier and reproductive model of monocultures. In this struggle, Agroecology stands out as central to the (re)creation of peasant youth, loaded with traditional knowledge based on the interrelationship with nature for the continuity of human life. Keywords: Peasant (re)creation; Setttlement; Peansant youth; Resistance; Agroecological production.