Educação do campo: materialidade da luta e signos discursivos

Abstract

This article aims at presenting an analysis of the watchwords "Rural education: our right; duty of the State!", which express the action of the Rural Social Movements in Brazil in the struggle for achieving the rural education. These watchwords, taken as discursive signs, reveal the intentionality and the tension produced by the peasants towards construction and achievement of the so-called rural education. The analysis is based on Bakhtin's theoretical framework, especially his theory of language. As a guide in the struggle, the discursive signs - the watchwords - lead the individuals to the class struggle, and also require their repositioning in this struggle and even in the way of ensuring their right to education. This positioning requires the awareness-raising concerning the contradiction between the action of organized workers and the action of State in dealing with, and achieving, rural education as a public policy.