Education and discursive identity constitution of unionist rural workers in Vicência-PE

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Aurenéa Maria de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Reis, Maria da Conceição dos, Silva, Joel Severino da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EDUCAÇÃO: Teoria e Prática
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/14902
• topic: Identidade. Sindicato Rural. Educação não Formal.; Identity. Rural Union. Non-Formal Education.; Identidad. Unión Rural. Educación no Formal.

From the 20th century onwards, several rural movements and unions joined forces against the terrible working conditions. Assuming that this process implies a pedagogical dimension of political learning, this research aimed to analyze how educational processes of the rural workers’ union in the municipality of Vicência, Pernambuco, affect the members’ political identity construction. This study was based on Ernesto Laclau’s concept of discourse, Chantal Mouffe’s (1985) Discourse Theory (DT), and Stuart Hall’s perspective of identity. The means through which individuals elaborate their discourses according to subject positions and relations of place and power was analyzed in the light of the Discourse Analysis (DA), formulated by Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi (2013). The results point to a notion of political-citizen identity linked to the struggle for conquests of sociopolitical rights on the part of these workers, as well as to the antagonism of employers, thus limiting unionists’ achievements.