Os laços da educação popular e da agroecologia na práxis da Escolinha de Agroecologia de Nova Iguaçu/RJ

Abstract

This study investigated the Popular Education as cultural empowerment tool, identity and territorial cohesion, focusing on the city of Nova Iguaçu, state of Rio de Janeiro, which has the Little School of Nova Iguaçu Agroecology / RJ an important source of development local agriculture. This research shows how problematic the Little School of Agroecology as a product of a role of social movements and farmers using in their methodology popular education as one of the identities potential catalyst of autonomy, understanding the role of family farming and social transformation. Based on these principles, this dissertation presents to identify and analyze the methodology of popular education and rural development expressed by the territoriality to farmers. The methodology used in data collection, broke the technique "snowball" in the interviews; content analysis helped in the qualitative discussion. When you want to identify a rural territoriality in per urban area in the construction of alternatives it found a proposal that allows farmers an emancipatory praxis and sustainable, which is helping to chart the course of a rural territorial development mod