Territorial approaches to field education: An analysis of the territorial experience of the Normília Cunha dos Santos Agricultural Family School

Abstract

By considering territory as a metamorphosed space because of the social relations that occur within its limits, the concept of field appears as a space of territoriality that is typical of the peasants. Thus, the construction of field education, mediated by the pedagogy of alternation, may be understood as the expression of a specific territoriality. The question that drives the study is how these territorialities are found in peasant territories. The field of study was the Normília Cunha dos Santos Agrarian Family School (AFS), located in the city of Barra de São Francisco-ES. Thus, the objective proposed in this study is to understand how the AFS experiences the pedagogy of alternation as peasant territoriality and confronts external tensions that affect operations. A qualitative methodology using bibliographic sources from field education studies and a logbook was adopted. It is concluded that living in and living with territorialities, according to the daily practices surrounding the subject of field education, aligns with the historicity of peasant struggles in territories.