Literacy From the Trenches of Social Mobilization: Landless Rural Learning and the Institutionalization of Academic Identities

• In Event: 29.082 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.082-10 - Fostering Educational Equality Through Decolonizing Methods and Postcolonial Perspectives

Abstract

This presentation discusses the representations of the act of reading and writing from rural educators, who graduated from a university in Brazil, which utilizes partnership with rural organizations and landless social movements. The theoretical scope focuses on alphabetization and literacy studies, in light of Freirean perspective, postcolonial, and effects of globalization. The learning performed via social movement are sometimes similar, but sometimes distant from university reading and writing practices. The semi-structured interviews conducted revealed that their speeches/representations reflect their position as readers in the context of grassroots social movement, embedded with a third space locality associated with institutionalized discourse. Meaning of literacy related with social movement and the institutionalization of higher education contributes to (re)constructions of academic identities.

Authors

• Charlene Bezerra

• Cesar A. Rossatto, The University of Texas - El Paso