The Peasant School, an expression of the political struggle of the Peasant Movement of Córdoba

Abstract

The doctoral thesis La Escuela Campesina, expresión de la lucha política del Movimiento Campesino de Córdoba, is the result, on the one hand, of a patient research work, and on the other hand, of the careful writing of its author, Carolina Vélez Funes. It is a novel and original production on the construction of the educational space in a state school managed by a peasant organization from the northwest of Córdoba, APENOC (Asociación de Productores del Noroeste Cordobés), which is part of the Movimiento Campesino de Córdoba and within which it carries out a political project attentive to the demands and needs of those peasant populations systematically invisibilized. The peasant school under investigation is part of a political program which, among its main objectives, intends to radically assume the political meaning of any pedagogical practice, namely, the transmission of the project itself to those who participate in this educational space. In this sense, Vélez Funes assumes as the organizing question of his research, how is the educational space constructed in a state school managed by a peasant organization that carries out a concrete political project and that has among its objectives the transmission of the same to its participants?