A “intervenção participativa dos atores”: uma metodologia construída no contexto dos assentamentos rurais do Ceará

Abstract

This paper aims to present a participative approach that has the rural workers as subject of the processo it was developed on a specific context of organisation of the rural settlements, as productive unity. The applied methodology, "action research", took into consideration the following issues: a) a collective group of work, enveloping rural workers and technicians from the government and from the landless movement; b) an auto-diagnosis; c) areflexive analysis of their reality; and, d) a collective decision-making processo. The work was done by 78 technicians and rural workers from 81 land settlements. The "Plans of Action" were elaborated and the National Institute of Colonisation and Land Reform (INCRA), adopted the new methodology for the whole state of Ceará. Thus, the "Particip ative intervention of the Actors", which was applied on a reality of contradicting interests, created a favourable environment for lhe search of lhe emancipation ofthe rural settlements through critical attitudes of the technicians and rural workers.