THE PARTICIPATION OF THE "SEM TERRINHA" CHILDREN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This article is the result of educational experiences with the Landless children of the MST and aims to socialize the construction process of the conception of childhood in the struggle for land in Brazil, linked to the Popular Agrarian Reform project. This process is strengthened in the struggle of peasant and family agriculture, in which children also build their place of existence and experiences. In the hardship and struggle of working-class children, who stubbornly cry out for the disruption of the structures imposed by the hegemonic power, Sem Terrinha childhood reinvents itself socially to continue existing as a child and resisting with its family members in the collective construction of its place as a subject of history. Our considerations about this experience show that the educational process of the struggle for land and the agrarian reform project in the MST allow rural children to reinvent their childhood even in times of pandemic, through attention, care and organization in a remote context, guaranteeing the place of political participation of children in the MST.