Educação popular e Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Teto (MTST): contribuição da geografia na luta pelo direito à cidade.

Abstract

The city reflected from the point of view of inequality requires to understand the dynamics and structures maintained and think the same way about the relationships that the subjects build for their maintenance and/or transformation, whether in the social organization, by the education dimension or in the creation of structures that enable its materialization. The research aims to analyze how popular education with its collaboration to Geography contributes to the formation of urban social movements to understand the way in which this articulation contributes to the transformation of territories. The research is participant and the approach is qualitative, where, there is the immersion of the subject in the research, within the possibilities faced, as one way of perceive social practice and bring the discussion of the integrality of research action, the political content in the act and the integration of the researcher with the subjects, not as social dispares, but as agents who jointly build the same space. The work presents throughout the chapters the central themes of the research about the city, popular education and Geography aligned in the work of the Homeless Workers Movement (MTST). We concluded with the analysis of the perception of the Movement the importance of the use of geographic concepts, thinking of liberating pedagogies, for the accomplishment of the territorial struggles in the City.