Landless Democratize Education

Learning in order to implement our ideas. With this notion in mind, the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has taught over 50,000 landless workers to read and write in the last three years. Last week, the first graduating class of the MST’s Florestan Fernandes University, located in Guararema, São Paulo, received their degrees in Specialized Rural Education and Development.

For Roseli Caldart, educator at Brazil’s ITERRA (Josué de Castro Technical Institute for the Research and Advancement of Agrarian Reform), projects such as the MST’s Florestan Fernandes University, a partnership with the University of Brasília, place individuals in higher education who would have probably never exercised their right to a higher education, if it were not for their involvement in social movements. “These are people who demonstrate the marks of social exclusion, discrimination and domination in all that they do, in their way of being. They are entering the universities on behalf of the collective groups of people that selected them and their expectations are different. They are studying so that they do not have to leave the countryside

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