Inter-institutional partnership for teacher education between university and rural social movement

Abstract This paper is part of studies in master's degree in education and aims to discuss the conception of education presented in the Pedagogical Project of the Land Pedagogy course, developed at the University of the State of Mato Grosso between 1999 and 2003, and that disseminated by Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST). It also aims to examine how partnership with the university in making the Land Pedagogy course was established. It is a qualitative study and consisted of documents analysis and semi-structured interviews applied to policy managers, teachers and students. The materials analyzed show that the concept of education spread in the course was object of tensions, questionings and strong confrontations between the university and the social movement. There were two competing projects, and each one diffused very different conceptions of education and society. Finally, it was found that the educational work of the movements, goes beyond the basic curriculum taken as official, and even though there is interaction between knowledge of the movements and the university, the conflicts tend to appear, since the educational projects from one part or another do not coincide and sometimes are antagonized Keywords: Public-Private Partnership. Land Pedagogy. Teacher Education