Abstract
Popular education is an important instrument which establishes processes for the formation and consolidation of the history of Brazilian education. The right and access to public education which is free, secular and has quality have their roots in the popular claims and resistance against liberalism in different periods of history. Resistance alternatives are built collectively using community mobilization strategies to do the groundwork. This article aims to share ideas of the social and collective praxis of education of the Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST)- Landless People Movement. According to this movement, education is part of political organization and resistance in defense of Country People Education: teachers and educators resist in order to show that country is a place of life, knowledge and wisdom. The defense of public policies to ensure free and secular education in which quality is a historical claim of the working class and must be always in action. The organization of educational workers is required for the collective and social praxis in order to construct another educational project.
Keywords:
popular education; fight for the land; collectivity; resistance