<i>Arpillerando</i> with high school youth from a rural school- collective embroidery of the struggle for land

Abstract

This article is the synthesis of the research, presented in 2022 at the Postgraduate Program in Education Professional Masters, at the State University of Rio Grande do Sul. The research sought to understand the story of four young people in the struggle for land. The production of data used the sewing of arpillleras, students of the Josue de Castro Institute of Education, located in Viamao, Rio Grande do Sul. The embroideries were named: Occupy, Resist, Produce and Conquer. The analyzes were motivated by legal documents and theorists such as: Frantz Fanon, Milton Santos, Paulo Freire, among others. The study showed that: a) students do not give up their own pedagogy, they update the demands for the guarantee of human rights to contemporary subjects in the field; b) young people produce knowledge based on their concrete realities; c) individual memories of struggles cannot be understood apart from Social Memories; d) Rural Education is the ballast for the concreteness of the settlement, and the encampment is the place where the seed of the school is planted; e) the production of arpilleras as a tool for analysis has been transformed into powerful records of stories, revealing the transforming power of Art-Education in the liberating perspective.