Educação popular em José Martí e no movimento indígena de Chiapas : a insurgência como princípio educativo da pedagogia latino-americana

Abstract

This thesis discusses insurgency as an educational principle in Latin American pedagogy. It does so using the concept of experience proposed by E. P. Thompson and establishes a dialog with the process of Cuba’s independence led by José Martí by the end of the 19th century and with the original indigenous movement in Chiapas, mainly the Zapatists, that emerged at the end of the 20th century. The author understands educational principle as a demand that emerges from existence and is related to the movement of and in the transformation of subjects in the process of social and political struggle. The research is based on a selection of documents, such as letters, communiqués, articles, speeches and declarations by the Zapatists and José Martí. The methodology consists of the analysis and interpretation of their contents. The author also establishes a relation between History and Education through a dialog with Martí’s vanguardism, the Zapatist rebelliousness and the Freirean beauty. She understands the spaces of