Abstract
The National Education Program in Agrarian Reform (Pronera) is considered the first public policy conquered by the Rural Education movement. It is a public policy created to be implemented in Agrarian Reform peasant territories. It was created in 1998 by the strength of the struggle of peasant socio-territorial movements. This program allowed thousands of peasant-settlers to have the right to access different levels of formal education, and, among these, is the training of rural educators. The training courses for rural educators by Pronera use the Pedagogy of Alternation as a pedagogical matrix. This methodology intends to link work, culture and peasant life experiences with technical-scientific knowledge. The purpose of this text is to discuss the emancipatory importance of training rural educators and the methodology of Pedagogy of Alternation in higher education courses at Pronera, using the Special Graduation Course in Geography (CEGeo) as an analysis point. The methodology used was theoretical discussion, documentary research on the Pronera Operations Manual and CEGeo's Pedagogical Curricular Project and interviews with peasant students of the Course. The course was constructed in horizontal dialogue with peasant socio-territorial movements, establishing a dialogic relationship between the University, Socio-territorial Movements and the State. In this course, 46 peasant-settlers graduated in geography.
Keywords
Countryside education; geography; formation of countryside educators; peasantry; PRONERA.