School time and community time: our experience at ECRAMA (Training School for Young Farmers from Amazonian rural communities)

Abstract

This study brings information from the experiences of graduates of the Agroecology & Citizenship Course, from the 2017, 2021/2022 class, organized by the ECRAMA school, whose audience is farmers with different origins and trajectories. With an educational practice based on participatory methodologies, the Pedagogy of Alternation, exchanges, interaction with educators, visits to families and the community, were important to our experiences of teaching and learning, supported by the dimensions of agroecology, illuminating alternatives for the family farming, and for many young people, steps to continue their studies. By systematizing and sharing this experience, we seek to testify to the importance of education in the countryside for rural subjects, as our right and duty of the State.