Today we hear Rebecca Tarlau talk about her upcoming book “Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: Public Education Reform and Social Movement-led Participatory Governance” – based on her ethnographic research (20 months living in MST settlements).

Very interesting to understand where the MST movement came from, how it started and how it provided help, curriculum and influence in the public schools of Brazil.

Some of her papers:

• Coproducing Rural Public Schools in Brazil: Contestation, Clientelism, and the Landless Workers’ Movement
• Education of the countryside at a crossroads: rural social movements and national policy reform in Brazil
• Occupying Land, Occupying Schools: Transforming Education in the Brazilian Countryside