Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education Rebecca Tarlau

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• ISBN 10:0190870354
• ISBN 13: 9780190870355
• Author: Rebecca Tarlau

In Occupying Schools, Occupying Land, Rebecca Tarlau explores how MST activists have pressured municipalities, states, and the federal government to implement their educational program in public schools and universities, affecting hundreds of thousands of students. Contrary to the belief that movements cannot engage the state without demobilizing, Tarlau shows how educational institutions can help movements recruit new activists, diversify their membership, increase technical knowledge, and garner political power. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic field work, Tarlau documents how the MST operates in different regions working at times with or through the state, at other times outside it and despite it. She argues that activists are most effective using contentious co-governance, combining disruption and public protest with institutional pressure to defend and further their goals.

Table contents:

Part One: Constructing a National Educational Program
1. Pedagogical Experiments in the Brazilian Countryside
2. Transforming Universities to Build a Movement: The Case of PRONERA
3. From the Pedagogy of the MST to Educação do Campo: Expansion, Transformation, and Compromise
Part Two: Regional Cases of Contentious Co-Governance of Public Education
4. Rio Grande do Sul: Political Regimes and Social Movement Co-Governance
5. Pernambuco: Patronage, Leadership, and Educational Change
6. Ceará: The Influence of National Advocacy on Regional Trajectories

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