Infant Education Among Rural Landless Workers

Abstract

The different theoretical approaches historically traced involving infancy have allowed us to recognize it in construction processes. Moreover, it is possible to notice, in the dynamics of this constitution, the many aspects that create the situations we are now living in relation to infant education, manifestations that we can observe in different social groups and classes, among others. With this perception, certain preocupations, queries, tensions and conflicts arised in this movement, originating the need to investigate infant life, with the aim of carrying out a descriptive and explanatory study about the education of infants, related to a specific group of rural workers who are organized in a social moviment that fights for better conditions of life and work, against exploitation, alienation and the loss of land, with the fight for land being one of their main aims. We developed this research at a camp called Acampamento Oziel that belongs to MST, in the city of Goiania in 2001. Based on these premises, we decided to take the education of infants as our object of study, analysing how rural workers who have no land carry out the education of children within their group, how they represent and how they think about the educational process. KEY WORDS: Infant Education - Rural workers group - Educational process.