Território de saberes: uma leitura do projeto APPJ-EFA-Conviver

Abstract

This study proposes an analysis of social-educational and production relationships developed by Project APPJ-EFA-Conviver and how the small producers organization, merged into rural territory of the Municipality of Quixabeira, semi-arid region of Bahia, has been promoting, with the dialogue of local knowledge, emergencies that change the place and people's lives. It was based on theoretical reflections on the concept of territory seen as a human space, living, complex space and education as practice of liberty, condition for social emancipation. We tried to realize how organizations and institutions, with which the Project interacts and establishes partnerships participate of the local development process, and how they established a link between popular and technical scientific knowledge mediated by the Alternation Pedagogy, building and articulating continuously the territory. In order to understand the reality that makes up the complex, multifaceted process of the territorial configuration, we opted for participatory research as a possibility of giving voice to research subjects, helping them to perceive themselves as knowing subjects and also understand their relationship with the world. Thus, we used a semi-structured interview, documentary analysis (statutes, minutes, reports, photographs, and newsletters) and direct observations as instruments in collecting data. The analysis revealed that there is much more to do, there is an organizational movement that promotes and highlights the local reality. It is important, however, that the public sphere acts in order to bring public policy more effective for the empowerment of small farmers and the territory.