Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

Rebecca Tarlau is Assistant Professor of Education and Labor and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University. She is affiliated with the Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Program, the Comparative and International Education program, and the Center for Global Workers' Rights.

• Acknowledgments List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: Constructing a National Educational Program 1. Pedagogical Experiments in the Brazilian Countryside 2. Transforming Universities to Build a Movement: The Case of PRONERA 3. From the Pedagogy of the MST to Educação do Campo: Expansion, Transformation, and Compromise Part Two: Regional Cases of Contentious Co-Governance of Public Education4. Rio Grande do Sul: Political Regimes and Social Movement Co-Governance 5. Pernambuco: Patronage, Leadership, and Educational Change 6. Ceará: The Influence of National Advocacy on Regional Trajectories ConclusionEpilogueAppendix A: Manifesto of Educators of Agrarian Reform, July 1997 Appendix B: Curriculum of the University of Ijuí Pedagogy of Land Program (1998-2001) Appendix C: Curriculum of the UNESP PRONERA Geography Program (2007-2011) Appendix D: Fourth National Seminar on PRONERA Final Document, November 2010 Appendix E: Manifesto of Educators of Agrarian Reform, September 2015 Glossary of Portuguese Terms Notes References Index

This is a brilliant book by a brilliant young scholar. It is one of the finest studies available on the Brazilian Landless Movement (the MST), perfectly balancing rigorous comparative institutional analysis with an activist's appreciation for social justice and an ethnographer's attention to detail. Tarlau captures nicely the complexity of the political landscape in Brazil, and she makes a compelling argument for the underappreciated role that education can play in institutionalizing social mobilization