Educação para transformação: uma experiência com juventudes do campo em contexto de conflito ambiental

Abstract

Youth in the countryside who experience a territory in the context of environmental conflict are commonly identified as an audience of interest to entrepreneurs, who actively compete for capture of their attention and subjectivity in the search for the "social license" of their enterprise. To this end, they explore the use of entrepreneurial discourse of local development, job offer and income generation that attracts these subjects very much. This is a reality that has been observed in the Sertão Central Cearense with the scenario of a possible implantation of a uranium and phosphate mining project in the region - The Santa Quitéria Project. Part of the population, organized in the resistance movement to the project, recognizes the youths' dispute process and communicated their concerns to the University, as Core TRAMAS, requesting an action that involved the youth in this debate. In this context was built the Project "Environment, health, communication and culture - Territorial Transformations and the Youth of the Central Sertão Cearense". The Project developed a 2-year course and worked with 32 young people from the region. Based on a reading of Paulo Freire's popular and dialogic education, this paper proposes to present a preliminary evaluation of the experience based on the analysis of interviews with the 32 students of the Project, through which the students had the opportunity to communicate their understandings Of the experience and the repercussions in it on their lives as young people of the field and on the environmental conflict of the Project Santa Quitéria. The analyses were divided into three categories that dealt with the concerns related to the youths enunciated by the territory: participation, access to information and permanence in the field. The conclusions indicate that the dialogic methodology used in the construction of the course contributed to the appreciation of dialogue and participation by the students, who associate these results with their strengthening as a youth in the field - the transforming goal of the Juventudes do Campo Project.