Perspectives on popular countryside education in Latin America: a Brazil-Nicaragua dialogue

Abstract

This article aims to present concepts and practices that guide Rural Education in Latin America taking the context of Brazil and Nicaragua as a reference and the defense of a Rural Education with a popular horizon. Results from the dialogic experience of Teacher Training in the perspective of Popular Education in the Countryside between Brazil and Nicaragua. Starting from a hermeneutic approach at first, in addition to reinforcing Latin American views of Rural Education, the study aims to reflect on the identity and belonging of Rural Education that we do. In a second, from the experience of the two countries, to present possibilities of emergence of Pedagogies that emerge from the knowledge of the field. As a result, the potential of progressive popular thought is recognized from the perspective of Paulo Freire, among others, who guide the practices and knowledge of Rural Education. The study demonstrates the effort of the two countries in achieving this purpose.

Keywords

• rural education
• conceptions
• experiences
• brazil
• nicaragua.