O potencial contra-hegemônico da educação do campo: um estudo sobre os jovens estudantes de ensino superior do assentamento Dênis Gonçalves-MG

Abstract

The hegemonic, universal, and dominant knowledge, which has a Eurocentric origin, based on coloniality, modernity, rationality, and capitalism, is imposed as a standard for pedagogies/epistemologies in the world. However, there are also resistance movements, which propose educational approaches and alternative visions to the hegemonic one, mainly based on the Post-Developmental paradigm. These approaches question capitalist development models, valuing a progress model based on local culture and local ethnographies. In addition, there are Decolonial perspectives, characterized by peripheral and revolutionary knowledge that emerges from non-dominant spheres of thought, and that promote political action contrary to hegemonic thinking. Finally, there are Post-Abyssal perspectives, which arise from the situation of subalternity and resist coloniality, generating reflections that challenge the abyssal thinking that derives from modernity. The rural environment is a space of dispute between agents who promote colonial/modern/hegemonic pedagogies and other thoughts, linked to the traditional knowledge of the subjects of the field, the struggle for land, of primarily decolonial, postabyssal and post-developmental origin, mainly from the existence of a rural education that historically arises alongside agrarian reform settlements. Therefore, this work is a qualitative research, which seeks to understand how young settlers, students of higher education courses aimed at the subjects of the field, make counter-hegemonic/decolonial/postdevelopmental/post-abyssal science, from the existence of a rural education that challenges the universal dominant thinking through pedagogies and knowledge that were born “from” and “in” the struggle for land. For this, a bibliographic review and an empirical study were carried out, based on interviews conducted in the field with young residents of the Dênis Gonçalves settlement, in the interior of Brazil, who are MST militants and higher education students.