Learning and Teaching the "Text of Life"

Maria da Conceição Silva Freitas talked with us about "texto da vida".

Working with women "campesinas", Conceição has an educational experience in alphabetization with peasants following Paulo Freire philosophy.

Using texts about the living situations of the community, the student teachers go to the countryside, make contact with the peasant communities and work with them to improve their literacy levels.

These communities are called "assentamentos", that is a community of "assentados" which meaning is an "occupant" of the land.