Interfaces between Countryside Education and the rural youth peasant exodus

Abstract

During the past few decades, the countryside has significantly lost its population and, among youth, this disintegration has become even worse because it compromises the implantation of a socially fair project to Brazilian peasantry. In this sense, this study aims at reflecting about the values and principles of Countryside Education faced with young peasants' exodus. We highlight that we cannot deem educational experience that is developed among peasants responsible for solving this issue, even if these experiences are liberating. We depart from the assumption that Countryside Education will contribute to restricting this migration flow through the values and principles it defends and whose realization takes place through educational practice. Resulting from bibliographical research based on studies by Abramovay et al. (1998), Caldart (2015, 2004, 2002), Molina (2015), Galindo (2014), among others, this investigation shows that the phenomenon of rural youth peasant exodus derives from a number of factors, among which the lack of comprehensive public policies. We consider indispensible to broaden educational policies to the diversity and extension of peasantry, highlighting the objective reality of populations who create and recreate this space as a way of life.

Keywords

• Countryside Education
• Educational Practice
• Rural Exodus
• Peasant Youth
• Public Policies