Abstracts

The dilemma between this and that expressed in Cecília Meireles' poem in epigraph seems to reappear in the curricula of many schools of the Brazilian rural areas. There are, after all, many contemporary discourses that describe what must be taught in these schools. On the one hand, activists of the movement and researchers on the theme demand a different school (Ribeiro, 2013RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora". 2013. 227f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2013.) that takes into account the cultures, interests and needs of people living in the rural areas (Ribeiro; Paraíso, 2012RIBEIRO, Vândiner; PARAÍSO, Marlucy Alves. A Produção Acadêmica sobre Educação do Campo no Brasil: currículos e sujeitos demandados. Educação, Porto Alegre, v. 35, n. 2, p. 169-180, maio/set. 2012.). On the other hand, the "[...] logic of performance that has driven the thinking and curriculum practices in schools" (Paraíso, 2010PARAÍSO, Marlucy Alves. O Currículo entre a Busca por "Bom Desempenho" e a Garantia das Diferenças. In: DALBEN, Ângela; DINIZ, Júlio; LEAL, Leiva; SANTOS, Lucíola (Org.). Convergências e Tensões no Campo da Formação e do Trabalho Docente. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2010. P. 132-152., p. 132), and that determines to a large extent what must be taught in them - and, therefore, how the curriculum must be like -, has also exerted its power over teachers and other people involved with education in rural areas. The dilemma between this and that was also present in the two MST schools studied in the research that forms the basis of this article¹⁹ 19 The research described here was conducted for Vândiner Ribeiro's doctoral thesis entitled Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da subjetividade lutadora (Curriculum and the MST: power-knowledge relations and the production of the fighting subjectivity) presented to the Graduate Program on Knowledge and Social Inclusion of UFMG in February 2013 under the supervision of Marlucy Alves Paraíso (see Ribeiro, 2013). .

The research developed here belongs to the field of curriculum studies under an approach that is conventionally labelled as post-critical (Silva, 1999SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da. Documentos de Identidade: uma introdução às teorias do currículo. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 1999.). Apart from using concepts from the field of curriculum studies, the research draws inspiration and conceptual tools from the Cultural Studies and from the work of Michel Foucault. In methodological terms, it makes use of procedures from ethnographic research for "the production of information" for the research (Meyer; Paraíso, 2012, p. 16), and from elements of a discourse analysis of Foucauldian descent in the analysis of the information produced. During the fieldwork, three classrooms were observed, all from the first series of fundamental education which, because they were multi-seriated, were organized in one classroom catering for the first and second years, one for the third year and one for the fourth and fifth years. One classroom was selected in the MST camp, also multi-seriated, catering for the third, fourth and fifth years of fundamental education.

One day, during a class in the settlement school with first and second year pupils, around 30 math operations are written on the blackboard. - Let's see who's going to get it all right, okay? - Tomorrow we'll do the seven and the eight, study hard! On a different day, in the third year classroom, a chocolate cake was made. It was used to teach quantities, fractions and text styles. In the camp school, in the third, fourth and fifth years, the solution of operations and problem situations was taught making use of money bills that were in the math book. During the observations, we often heard things like: - I want to see the copy of the text in a nice and crafted handwriting, you hear me?; or still: - Be quiet! Everybody facing forward, no looking at the colleague's desk, because we are doing a dictation now, said the first and second year teacher (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - Fieldwork notes (FN) - during Math and Portuguese classes)²⁰ 20 The fieldwork notes were not numbered; we have kept the several files that comprise them (in digital format, as well as manual and oral recorded/transcribed), according to the possibilities of an ethnographic research that took place in various spaces. .

At the same time, it was possible to see during the field observations of this research the teacher's home turn into a dormitory for pupils, because they were going to wake up during the night to watch the Moon and later the sunrise. It was also possible to see the event called Tea with Poetry, in which Cecília Meireles and the struggle for land were brought together, alongside Manuel de Barros. We could see Vinícius de Moraes writing music with Patativa do Assaré and with the Land Reform. The MST flag atop a tractor decorated the stage where pupils and their fathers and mothers marched singing and reciting poetry. During the intervals, a performer spoke of the struggle for land and of the Land Reform (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN). It seems that in responding to the dilemma between this and that, the curricula of the Acampamento Esperança (Hope Camp) and Assentamento Coragem (Courage Settlement)²¹ 21 Names of places are all fictional here. chose to work with this plus that or with all this and also that.

A pupil surprised and moved his teacher in a geometry class saying that he would use all geometrical figures in the drawing she asked them to do, just as Pablo Picasso had done in his cubist paintings. The night trip in the back of a truck in solidarity to fellow Landless workers who had been evicted and were now at the roadside was considered as a day of classes. Discussion about "why the struggle for land is important in Brazil" complemented the contents of the textbook. The "relief of the Camp" was studied to learn about "agribusiness, Land Reform and rural flight" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN). In the Camp and Settlement, school classes had a lot of this and also that!

Situations like these observed during the investigation conducted, from which we present here only a fraction, mobilized the discussions developed in this article bringing elements into the analysis of power and knowledge relations inscribed in the curricula of a camp school and of a settlement school of the Movement of Rural Landless Workers (MST). The need to gather/select knowledge to teach in these schools puts in action conflicting power games, since it entails choosing which knowledge is more or less valid for a given group.

In the schools studied, the curriculum practices revealed that, in the power relations constituted, a set of dualisms - universal versus particular, countryside versus city, popular versus scientific, right versus wrong - is brought into action by the discourses that circulate therein. However, these dualisms are often not simply opposed to each other, but rather support each other, intercross and complement each other. In the curricula studied, the opposition between knowledge called universal and the particular knowledge of the group places the countryside and the city in sharply distinct camps and at the same time defines what is right or wrong within each of the knowledge fields in one space and in the other.

It is worth mentioning that the knowledge labelled as universal is understood here as the result of the choices of a group, in the same way that the knowledge called particular is also the knowledge of a group. Universal knowledge is produced amidst power-knowledge relations. Therefore, it is not general at all, it does not cover everything, it does not cater for every culture, it does not have a general, absolute and neutral character. It is nothing more than the result of choices and exercises of power, just like any other knowledge. The knowledge called universal is therefore also particular, and it is only considered universal because through the power relations they have been imposed as universal. We consider that this knowledge demands very specific lifestyles and subject attitudes that need to be generalized in order to guarantee the intended universality of the values, lifestyles and subject attitudes propagated by the knowledge itself. The subject attitudes are understood here as "[...] the discursive attitudes that, literally, [...] construct the subject in the same operation that endows him/her with a discursive position" (Larrosa, 2002LARROSA, Jorge. Tecnologias do Eu e Educação. In: SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da (Org.). O Sujeito da Educação: estudos foucaultianos. 5. ed. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002. P. 35-86., p. 66), being possibly unstable and changeable.

Putting into question the knowledge called universal, Grignon (1995GRIGNON, Claude. Cultura Dominante, Cultura Escolar e Multiculturalismo Popular. In: SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da (Org.). Alienígenas na Sala de Aula. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1995. P. 178-189.) says that the school tends to certain monoculturalism by attributing value to knowledge purportedly universal. Thus, in order to avoid operating with this logic and considering that this knowledge was largely transformed into disciplinary knowledge (associated to the different disciplines that comprise the majority of contemporary curricula), we opted for calling it here disciplinary knowledge. It is useful to observe that the disciplinarization of knowledge has very precise objectives: the idea is "[...] to establish limits, to leave the innominable out, to divide and put in competition one knowledge against the others, certain subjects against others, [...] to naturalize and legitimize power relations, relations of domination that certain groups exercise upon others" (Varela, 2002VARELA, Julia. O Estatuto do Saber Pedagógico. In: SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da (Org.). O Sujeito da Educação: estudos foucaultianos. Rio de Janeiro: Vozes, 2002. P. 87-96., p. 93).

So, what should be taught/learned in MST camp and settlement schools? This or that? Mathematical operations or the struggle for land? Grammar or Land Reform? Textbooks or music? Where should one teach/learn? In the classroom or on the roadside? What knowledge is more valid and less valid? Daily life knowledge or scientific knowledge? Popular knowledge or disciplinary knowledge? Faced with such questions, the argument developed here is that, despite the fact that power-knowledge relations forged in the curricula of schools studied were marked by the dominant presence of sanctioned knowledge linked to the different curriculum disciplines, there is an intense effort to introduce and teach other knowledges that contribute to divulge and construct the Landless subject. In such composition of knowledges, non-school knowledge is also adapted and taught in the schools studied in a way that ends up modifying the curriculum practiced, even when working with such knowledge inside the curriculum disciplines. It should be noted that alternative knowledge introduced in the curricula investigated and analyzed in this article was present only in Geography and Science classes.

When making available certain knowledges in the curricula of the schools studied, some given marks, modes of acting and behaving constitute certain subject attitudes that are made available to the Landless. Knowledge results from a construction of power itself, of struggles in the exercise of power which, as is proper to it, "[...] no one knows for sure who has it; but one knows who does not have it" (Foucault, 2007FOUCAULT, Michel. Microfísica do Poder. 23. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 2007., p. 75). Thus, through the social practices produced one can "engender [...] totally new forms of subjects" (Foucault, 2009FOUCAULT, Michel. A Verdade e as Formas Jurídicas. Rio de Janeiro: Nau Editora, 2009., p. 8).

These forms of subject are configured in certain attitudes made available in the curricula analyzed. So, for example, by electing certain ecological or health knowledges against the latifundium and by giving it prominence in the curricula investigated, at least three subject attitudes are required in the discourse studied: the attitude of an ecological subject, the attitude of a healthy subject, and the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject. These attitudes have great importance in the discourse of the MST, because they come together in the production of the Landless subject that is explicitly aimed at.

Ecological Knowledge in the Curricula Studied

What should be learned/taught in the schools of the MST camps and settlements? How does the knowledge elected to be present in the curricula researched teach ways of being Landless? Which practices, conducts and ways of understanding the world are taught/learned in these curricula? The MST discourse about education puts some demands upon the curriculum of its schools. Among them, a set of principles stands out linked to the way in which people work and relate to each other in their environment. It is required in the curricula that children serve as an example to other people. In this context, non-school knowledge enters in dispute with school knowledge, even though the objective is one of articulating knowledge of interest to the Landless with knowledge from the curriculum disciplines.

This conflict about priorities is constantly present in the speeches of the Landless and of the teachers that were part of this study: "In order to think our school we need to think what contents we want to teach" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. Tânia's speech²² 22 The names by which the Landless people who took part in this study are referred here are all fictional. , FN). One of the Landless people stated that it was "necessary to think the curriculum, to think the need to advance the curriculum" (Maria, FN, September 2010, n.p.). She also said that "in the classroom, we have to experiment a little bit with everything" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - Maria's speech, FN). The composition proposed requires a curriculum that, as one of the teachers put it, invites experimentation. "[...] Experimenting, however, does not mean leaving aside the MST principles" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - Maria's speech, FN). Such experimenting goes in the direction of the demands of the MST discourse that suggests "to teach by doing, that is, [...] to prepare equally for manual and intellectual work" (MST, 2005MST. Dossiê MST Escola: documentos e estudos 1990-2001. Cadernos de Educação, Veranópolis, RS, n. 13. Edição Especial, 2005., p. 34).

In this way, the Landless develop their agency in the curricula investigated here to guarantee the teaching and learning of knowledges of school disciplines without leaving aside the MST objectives. Agency is understood here as "[...] the identification and establishment of connections among routines, habits and techniques within specific domains of action and value" (Rose, 2001ROSE, Nikolas. Como se Deve Fazer a História do Eu? Educação e Realidade, Porto Alegre, v. 26, n. 1, p. 33-58, jun./jul. 2001., p. 51). In this sense, curriculum is the space of learnings that propagate repertoires of conduct, vocabularies, judgement systems, and specific ways of living in the world. In Science classes, for example, the water-related contents are associated to the pupils' daily lives, whilst teaching the ways of being Landless.

The ecological discourse employed in class points towards "[...] an ecological ideal, a personal and social utopia guiding decisions and lifestyles of those who adopt, in some measure, an ecological orientation for their lives" (Carvalho, 2007CARVALHO, Isabel Cristina Moura. Subjetividade e Sujeito Ecológico: contribuições da psicologia social para a educação ambiental. In: GUERRA, Antônio Fernando Silveira; TAGLIEBER, José Erno (Org.). Educação Ambiental: fundamentos, práticas e desafios. Itajaí: Editora da UNIVALI, 2007. P. 29-36., p. 3). Jessica seems to have learned the lesson by saying that her father would grow vegetation around the river heads, for they guarantee, according to the ecological discourse, the revitalization of the area. The discourse added by the teacher says that one needs to work on the recomposition of the flora of the area, preferably with native species (Eco, 2008ECO. Revitalização de nascentes e de mentes. Reportagem de Jaqueline B. Ramos. 12 nov. 2008. Disponível em: <http://www.oeco.com.br/reportagens/20220-revitalizacao-de-nascentes-e-de-mentes>. Acesso em: 04 out. 2011.
http://www.oeco.com.br/reportagens/20220... )²³ 23 ECO. Revitalização de nascentes e de mentes (2008). Available on: <http://www.oeco.com.br/reportagens/20220-revitalizacao-de-nascentes-e-de-mentes>. Accessed on: 04 October 2011. . An attitude of ecological subject is thus made available in the Science class, which also caters for the MST discourse, since the latter is often associated to environmental causes.

A way of living was, therefore, taught to the Little Landless²⁴ 24 To the MST, the Little Landless Children are Boys and Girls who Have in their Formation the Working Class Identity, They are the Sons and Daughters of the Struggle that Inspire the Movement Itself (Crianças Sem Terrinha São Meninas e Meninos que Têm na sua Formação a Identidade da Classe Trabalhadora, São Filhos e Filhas da Luta que Inspiram o Próprio Movimento). Available on: <http://www.mst.org.br/especiais/32>. Accessed on: 12 October 2012. during the Science class, when the teacher brought in the ecological discourse, showing that the Landless displayed a different attitude. The ecological discourse activated here demands a "[...] subjectivity oriented by a sensibility towards the social and environmental, a model for the formation of individuals and social groups capable of identifying, problematizing and acting in response to socio-environmental issues (Carvalho, 2004CARVALHO, Isabel Cristina Moura. Educação Ambiental Crítica: nomes endereçamentos da educação. In: LAYRARGUES, Philippe Pomier (Org.). Identidades da Educação Ambiental Brasileira/Ministério do Meio Ambiente. Diretoria de Educação Ambiental; Brasília: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, 2004., p. 18).

Along these lines, teacher Marina said: - Here in the Settlement, we know how to take care of the land. When we got here, lots of river heads were dry because people did not care, but we grew vegetation around them, we made sure that today we would have water for the land plots (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - In the Settlement school, FN, March). An ideal regulating the ways of behaving is put into action. Borders are established between practices seen as better or worse. It is not enough, however, in the attitude of an ecological subject, to take the right position. A multiplying action is also required.

The ecological discourse employed starts from the use of the right and the wrong to help subjects (re)formulate their attitudes. In fact, the subjectivation processes require acting upon oneself and upon others. Thus, after learning the lesson, it must be disseminated, so that each person becomes a multiplying agent of the correct action. These knowledges taught in the curricula investigated, which require commitment of the Landless to the environment, also circulate outside the school space. In the 5^th National MST Congress a letter of commitment was made public to "defend all river heads, sources and drinking water reservoirs". [Because] water is a gift of Nature and belongs to humanity" (Fato Social, 2007FATO SOCIAL. Carta do 5º Congresso Nacional do MST em Brasília, 15 de junho de 2007. Disponível em: <http://fatosocial.blog.terra.com.br/2007/06/16/termina-congresso-nacional-do-mst/>. Acesso em: 04 out. 2011.
http://fatosocial.blog.terra.com.br/2007... , n.p.). The ecological knowledges, in what concerns more specifically environmental education, were disciplinarized through time, even if some people defend that they should be practical, based on people's daily lives, and should not be turned into school contents (Ribeiro, 2007RIBEIRO, Vândiner. A Influência de Situações de Risco na Construção de Conhecimentos Cotidianos. 2007. 126f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, 2007.). By converting them into disciplines, they are more easily controlled, circumscribed and disseminated in spaces with specific objectives.

Statements about the better way to live, with an environmentally correct attitude, are reiterated in the lessons of the curricula investigated, both within and outside the classroom. The ecological discourse, through the power it has over society, works to reinforce the MST's political stance, including their position against latifundia. To the MST, it is important to discuss and defend environmental actions, so that through this discourse the Movement takes position in favor of small farmers.

Apart from that, there has been a whole strategy of involvement of society in favor of MST causes, as shown in a report publicized by the movement on the Internet entitled Movimentos e organizações do campo exigem vetos à MP - Medida Provisória - do Código Florestal (Movements and land workers organizations demand veto to the Forest Code Provisional Act"). The report brings parts of an MST declaration repudiating president Dilma on points of the text of the Provisional Act dealing with the Forest Code.

In this context, which speaks of the whole of Brazilian society and no longer of a specific group, it seems that the demand for certain behavior gains more weight. Thus, the teaching/learning refers to exemplary attitudes, precisely because they carry the label of the Landless, as explained by the teacher: "We, the Landless, who know what we have to do, we have to teach other people who still don't know" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - Settlement Class, FN, April). The knowledge of the Landless, transformed into school knowledge, gains an important space of dissemination that can give more credibility to the knowledge itself by incorporating it into the school curriculum.

It is through the articulation of knowledges, therefore, that the Landless are required to exercise dominion over themselves, in which it is necessary "[...] to dominate one's own will, in the service of character, through the inculcation of habits and rituals of self-denial, prudence and reckoning" (Rose, 2001ROSE, Nikolas. Como se Deve Fazer a História do Eu? Educação e Realidade, Porto Alegre, v. 26, n. 1, p. 33-58, jun./jul. 2001., p. 44). Avoiding the use of pesticides gives an example of such prudence, since we know that organic produce is generally smaller and takes longer to be produced and harvested (Zé Folgado Blog, 2012ZÉ FOLGADO BLOG. Soluções Alternativas aos Agrotóxicos para o Controle de Pragas. Disponível em: <http://www.presenteparahomem.com.br/solucoes-alternativas-aos-agrotoxicos-para-o-controle-de-pragas/#.UHrM5KT2m_4>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2012.
http://www.presenteparahomem.com.br/solu... , n.p.). Therefore, deciding to avoid pesticides means refusing what is easier and often more profitable in favor of a cause, of a different political reasoning and of an alternative economic logic.

Ecological knowledge usually requires from the Landless a certain way to relate to the environment - in the use of the land and in the relationship of people with it -, which is in accordance with the precepts of the MST. After all, it has already been publicized that the MST has produced a different way to live on/from the land by "[...] constructing a different relationship, a relationship of care and alterity with biodiversity" (Ribeiro, 2012RIBEIRO, Cristine Jaques. Agroecologia: práticas coletivas num assentamento de reforma agrária. Disponível em: <http://www.ufpel.tche.br/isp/ppgcs/eics/dvd/documentos/gts_llleics/gt7/gt7cristine.pdf>. Acesso em: 01 nov. 2012.
http://www.ufpel.tche.br/isp/ppgcs/eics/... , p. 14). This is how a set of ecological knowledges defining right and wrong are established and categorized, so that subjects are objectivized in power-knowledge relations. More than that, this knowledge is not restricted to the curriculum knowledge of different disciplines, because it is re-signified and joins strategically other knowledges to produce the Landless subject that must also be ecological.

Sanitary Knowledge in the Curricula Investigated

The sanitary discourse is activated in the curricula investigated amidst contents of the different curriculum disciplines. The sanitary discourse relates both to models of "[...] knowledge about the structure of diseases and their causes, and to practical proposals for intervention of sanitization and reorganization of the physical space" (Melo; Beltrame; Heberle, 2010MELLO, Alex Oestreich de; BELTRAME, Éderson Cesar; HEBERLE, Milene Veiga Rossan. O Discurso Sanitarista como Discurso Político e Ideológico na República Velha. Revista Historiador, Porto Alegre, n. 3. Ano 03 dez. 2010. Disponível em: <http://www.historialivre.com/revistahistoriador>. Acesso em: 01 nov. 2012.
http://www.historialivre.com/revistahist... , p. 97). There is in this perspective a "[...] concern with the hygiene of the family, of the environment in which they live, work and circulate, creating an organizing discourse that seeks to create general norms for the population" (Oliveira, 2003OLIVEIRA, Iranilson Buriti de. Fora da Higiene não Há Salvação: a disciplinarização do corpo pelo discurso médico no Brasil Republicano. Mneme, Revista de Humanidades, Caicó, Centro de Ensino Superior do Seridó, v. 4, n. 7, fev./mar. 2003. Disponível em: <http://www.cerescaico.ufrn.br/mneme/pdf/mneme07/002-pdf>. Acesso em: 01 nov. 2012.
http://www.cerescaico.ufrn.br/mneme/pdf/... , p. 14).

The sanitary discourse appears in the curricula investigated with the objective of controlling attitudes in the name of the care of the population.

It was agreed with the class that the tires would be buried, but before they left the classroom the teacher asked if the pupils remembered how many people had been infected by the dengue mosquito in the previous year. The reason people got sick, according to her, was their own carelessness. That was why they had to bury the tires. After all, "each one must do their part, she said" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - Settlement Class, FN, April). The teacher's speech reiterates the sanitary discourse about dengue, which is also intensely disseminated in other spaces, particularly in the media. The practice of sanitary control and intervention requires an attitude of healthy subject that takes care of oneself and of the others.

Clearly, this subject attitude is constantly reiterated in the media. It is possible to see in it, for example, a physician making use of the sanitary discourse to say that "the fight against the mosquito that carries dengue achieves positive results when each citizen brings onto him/herself the responsibility to help in the maintenance (cleaning) of the space they inhabit" (Correio do Estado, 2011CORREIO DO ESTADO. Médico sanitarista fala sobre a dengue nesta sexta-feira. Reportagem de Roberto Costa. 29 jul. 2011. Disponível em: <http://www.correiodoestado.com.br/noticias/medico-sanitarista-fala-sobre-a-dengue-nesta-sexta-feira_119281/>. Acesso em: 03 out. 2011.
http://www.correiodoestado.com.br/notici... , n.p.)²⁶ 26 CORREIO DO ESTADO. Médico Sanitarista Fala sobre a Dengue nesta Sexta-feira. By Roberto Costa. On 29/07/2011. Available on: <http://www.correiodoestado.com.br/noticias/medico-sanitarista-fala-sobre-a-dengue-nesta-sexta-feira_119281/>. Accessed on: 03 October 2011. . This discourse is often articulated with the political discourse that says that "it is of no use for the population to place on the public power the responsibility to fight against dengue. Society needs to take part in this process" (Portal RG, 2011PORTALRG. FMS Alerta: 82% dos focos de mosquito da dengue estão dentro de casa. Disponível em: <http://www.portalrg.com.br/noticia/fms-alerta-82-dos-focos-de-mosquito-da-dengue-estao-dentro-de-casa-62783.html>. Acesso em: 03 out. 2011.
http://www.portalrg.com.br/noticia/fms-a... , n.p.)²⁷ 27 PORTALRG. Speech by the president of the Municipal Health Foundation of Teresina in the report "FMS Alerta: 82% dos focos de mosquito da dengue estão dentro de casa". Available on: <http://www.portalrg.com.br/noticia/fms-alerta-82-dos-focos-de-mosquito-da-dengue-estao-dentro-de-casa-62783.html>. Accessed on: 03 October 2011. . Statements like these are repeated in the Science classes in the curricula investigated.

Through the knowledges made available in the curricula investigated, the Little Landless are asked to reflect on their actions to avoid risks to the population. In this case, such discourses put in action practices of control that do not work individually, but in a collective manner. The pedagogical practices develop subjectivation processes in which each pupil establishes his/her relation with him/herself by assuming the responsibility towards the environment where he/she lives and towards the health of the community.

Apart from that, Q & A activities were used by the teacher, who invested in guiding the pupils' conducts. In the school yard, while they located and buried the tires, the teacher asked: "who dug up the tires? Do you think that attitude was correct?" The pupils blamed themselves, but eventually concluded that that action was not correct and that it should not be repeated (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN, April). The teacher therefore stimulated the practice of reflection about actions seen as incorrect. The pupils were, in this way, prompted to recognize the error, and asked to decide about what had been publicized as the common good.

The reflection raised by the teacher focused also on how to redeem oneself for the wrongdoing, since children promised never to dig up the tires again, in addition to creating ways to eradicate dengue sources in the settlement. These pedagogical practices require self-governance, demanding that the subjects speak about their actions, "[...] not as objects examined, but as confessing subjects; not with respect to a truth about themselves which is imposed to them from the outside, but in relation to a truth about themselves that they themselves must actively contribute to produce" (Larrosa, 2002LARROSA, Jorge. Tecnologias do Eu e Educação. In: SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da (Org.). O Sujeito da Educação: estudos foucaultianos. 5. ed. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002. P. 35-86., p. 54). In this curriculum practice, "[...] confession and exposition of the self, the exemplarity and the discipled [are] incorporated to the person in a variety of schemes" (Rose, 2001ROSE, Nikolas. Como se Deve Fazer a História do Eu? Educação e Realidade, Porto Alegre, v. 26, n. 1, p. 33-58, jun./jul. 2001., p. 38), in this case, self-inspection, exposition of the self and self-formation.

The subject is encouraged to take on himself the responsibility of a care that is not individual, but collective. We can say that an exercise in biopower is underway here with the objective of governing the population (Veiga-Neto, 2010VEIGA-NETO, Alfredo. Biopoder e Dispositivos de Normalização: implicações educacionais. In: SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL IHU: O (DES)GOVERNO BIOPOLÍTICO DA VIDA HUMANA, 11, 2010, São Leopoldo, Unisinos. Anais... São Leopoldo, Unisinos, 2010.). More than that, contemporary biopower concerns itself with making live (Rabinow; Rose, 2006RABINOW, Paul; ROSE, Nikolas. O Conceito de Biopoder Hoje. Política e Trabalho. Revista de Ciências Sociais, João Pessoa, n. 21, abr. 2006.). Such power endeavor in the MST brings forward the fact that "[...] biopower does not emerge from, or serves to support, a single block of power, dominant group or set of interests" (Rabinow; Rose, 2006RABINOW, Paul; ROSE, Nikolas. O Conceito de Biopoder Hoje. Política e Trabalho. Revista de Ciências Sociais, João Pessoa, n. 21, abr. 2006., p. 32).

In summary, sanitary knowledges are used in the curricula investigated to regulate the bodies which, in their turn, act upon the environment, normalize practices, evaluate behavior, separate, compare and hierarchize ways of being as more or less acceptable. These knowledges, however, even though present in academic discourses, assume a different character in the curricula studied. After all, the objective of this discourse is the production of a Landless subject committed to the precepts publicized in the MST discourse: a healthy life and healthy population.

Knowledges about Land Reform and the Demand for an Attitude of an Anti-latifundium Subject

"The latifundium has renewed itself, and today manages a modern system called agribusiness that controls the land and the production" (MST, 2012MST. A Renovação do Latifúndio e seu novo Sistema: o agronegócio. Disponível em: <http://www.mst.org.br/A-renovacao-do-latifundio-e-seu-novo-sistema-o-agronegocio>. Acesso em: 21 abr. 2012.
http://www.mst.org.br/A-renovacao-do-lat... , n.p.)²⁸ 28 MST. A renovação do latifúndio e seu novo sistema: o agronegócio. Available on: http://www.mst.org.br/A-renovacao-do-latifundio-e-seu-novo-sistema-o-agronegocio. Accessed on: 21 April 2012. ; "we are not going to teach agribusiness" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN, March)²⁹ 29 Tânia - conversation at the settlement (Field Notes, March 2010). ; "the school has an important place in the struggle for Land Reform" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN, November)³⁰ 30 Maria - interview (Field Notes, November 2010). . Statements like these are put in action to disseminate very specific ways of understanding the Land Reform in the MST. These statements disseminate practices and make available desirable marking points to the Landless in the curricula researched. After all, "no 'focal point', no scheme of transformation can work if, through a series of successive concatenations, it does not insert itself, in the end of the day, into a global strategy" (Foucault, 2006aFOUCAULT, Michel. História da Sexualidade I: A vontade de saber. Tradução: Maria Thereza da Costa. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal, 2006a., p. 110). Curriculum is, within this scheme, one of the mechanisms for the transformation of spaces, subjects and ways of life in the MST.

Geography classes in the curricula investigated gain special importance in disseminating the knowledges that require an attitude of an anti-latifundium subject. This attitude displays several marks of the attitude of ecological subject, reiterating the association between the care of the environment and the discourse of the Land Reform. Despite the many intersections, there is something striking in the anti-latifundium attitude: the attitude contrary to the actions of the large landowners regarding the use and possession of the land. The struggle for Land Reform and for the right to land is central, requiring from the Landless ways of understanding their relation to the environment in a different way from that of the large landowners.

The classes at the Hope Camp were more intense in fostering the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject when compared to those at the Courage Settlement, corroborating what Marcia, one of the Landless, said: "in the camp everything is more intense. The situation itself of confrontation, of struggle and daily suffering, makes everything more sensitive" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN, June). At the Camp, through knowledges from the Geography classes, pupils learned about the transformation of the rural space, making use of a text present in the textbook adopted by the school. The contents in this case were the use and occupation of the land. They opened up a variety of possibilities for discussion, so that the teacher could fulfil the requirements of the MST discourse about Land Reform.

This discourse said that the school should take responsibility to form a "subject committed to the Land Reform, to the construction of a popular project. The school has to commit itself to this project", as stated by Landless Maria (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN, March). Along these lines, the camp teacher exploited the subject through questions and answers, asking her pupils to observe the area surrounding the school.

In this episode, the teacher was talking about terrain and, equally, about lessons that were part of the Land Reform agenda as, for example, when the teacher said that the farmer made nature worse. With the appropriation of knowledge about Land Reform, there is an inversion of relations previously established with the State as when, for example, in the 1970s there was a "near extinction of small farmers movements" (Fernandes, 2008FERNANDES, Bernardo Mançano. O MST e as Reformas Agrárias do Brasil. Boletim Data Luta, p. 1-10, 2008. Disponível em: <http://www2.fct.unesp.br/nera/artigodomes/12artigodomes_2008.pdf>. Acesso: 11 de abr. 2011.
http://www2.fct.unesp.br/nera/artigodome... , p. 1). In this sense, even if book contents are very frequent in the classroom, and even if disciplinary knowledge is emphasized, the act of re-signifying them, presenting other knowledges, other forms to understand them, adding characters and meanings, works as an important tactic in the disputes that characterize the Landless.

The procedure of taking pupils to observe the Camp under the teacher's guidance brings contents about terrain, prescribed by the textbook, but also teaches what happens with the environment when it is in the hands of large landowners. Certain principles are understood as better than others, because a given way of living is desired within the Movement. Even if the contents worked in the classroom have been extracted from the textbook, the analyses explored demonstrate the attempt to problematize the book's statements, adding other knowledges to them, such as in the episode previously described. Other contents, which are usually present in the books, also received different analyses and connections with the life of the Landless, for example, the discussion about World Water Day.

The idea disseminated is that, because they are Landless, the relations they establish with the use of the land and with the care for nature are different, requiring from them a different attitude to face the circumstances of their lives. Here, ecological knowledges reaffirm precepts from the knowledges of the Land Reform that are inseparable in the discourse of the MST, sometimes even merging into each other. The teachings disseminated in the Science classes, when they contrast actions in the Settlement against those in the city and by big landowners, put in action the MST discourse that opposes agribusiness³¹ 31 Agribusiness is here associated not only to agricultural high-technology, but especially to "[...] its tendency to control ever larger areas of the country and, at the same time, to concentrate business in companies controlled internationally" (Leite; Medeiros, 2012, p. 82). . To the Land Reform, there is in the countryside "a dispute between these two worlds of agriculture. - The agribusiness and - a different form of agriculture, which is environmentally sustainable and produces a healthier fruit", [through] Land Reform, - or - [...] of much older forms of possession and occupation of the land"³² 32 MUNDO JOVEM. Reforma Agrária, mais Necessária do que Nunca. Available on: <http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-2007.php>. Accessed on: 12 November 2012. (Görgen, 2012GÖRGEN, Frei. Reforma Agrária, mais Necessária do que Nunca. Disponível em: <http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-2007.php>. Acesso em: 12 nov. 2012.
http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-200... , n.p.).

Thinking about the importance of the care for the environment, Friar Görgen (2012GÖRGEN, Frei. Reforma Agrária, mais Necessária do que Nunca. Disponível em: <http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-2007.php>. Acesso em: 12 nov. 2012.
http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-200... ) says that "[...] the Land Reform is now more necessary than ever" (Görgen, 2012GÖRGEN, Frei. Reforma Agrária, mais Necessária do que Nunca. Disponível em: <http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-2007.php>. Acesso em: 12 nov. 2012.
http://www.pucrs.br/mj/entrevista-07-200... , n.p.). For him, Land Reform pertains to reconciling sustainable food production and the preservation of the environment. In summary, knowledges of the Land Reform are intimately related to ecological knowledges in the production of the Landless subject.

The investment in re-signifying the knowledges presented in textbooks seems of great importance in the context of the Land Reform for, as demonstrated by Nabarro and Tsukamoto (2009NABARRO, Sérgio Aparecido; TSUKAMOTO, Ruth Youko. Questão Agrária e o Livro Didático de Geografia: uma análise do conteúdo apresentado nos livros didáticos adotados pelas escolas de ensino fundamental da rede pública de Londrina/PR. In: ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE GEOGRAFIA AGRÁRIA, 19, 2009, São Paulo. Anais... São Paulo, 2009. P. 1-26.), when they analyze the contents of Land Reform in Geography textbooks, these knowledges are distant from the debates favored in areas of camp and settlement. The textbooks emphasize the "economic activities developed in the rural area, and in the end [...] (show) a text disconnected from the context, [...] at no moment do they speak of the struggle for land and of rural social movements in Brazil" (Nabarro; Tsukamoto, 2009NABARRO, Sérgio Aparecido; TSUKAMOTO, Ruth Youko. Questão Agrária e o Livro Didático de Geografia: uma análise do conteúdo apresentado nos livros didáticos adotados pelas escolas de ensino fundamental da rede pública de Londrina/PR. In: ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE GEOGRAFIA AGRÁRIA, 19, 2009, São Paulo. Anais... São Paulo, 2009. P. 1-26., p. 19). Therefore, the knowledge about Land Reform disseminated in the textbook enters in competition with the knowledges about Land Reform proposed by the MST and valued in the teacher's discourse.

The pedagogical practices used in the Hope Camp do not neglect the knowledges present in textbooks. This happens independently of the teacher analyzing critically the texts in the books. After all, although she introduces other knowledges, when the teacher goes back to the textbook she instructs her pupils: read this text [from the Geography textbook] and then answer the questions that follow it; do the activities (Camp Class, FN, June 2010). In this context, it is not unusual that knowledges added to the curriculum, which might be considered alternative knowledge, face up to "[...] knowledges and discourses that make use of supposedly universal categories to talk about everything without referring to real processes" (Varela, 2002VARELA, Julia. O Estatuto do Saber Pedagógico. In: SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da (Org.). O Sujeito da Educação: estudos foucaultianos. Rio de Janeiro: Vozes, 2002. P. 87-96., p. 93).

The speech of one of the Landless, a father of pupils at the school, reveals the power struggles between knowledges in the school curriculum:

The definition of what is allowed, forbidden, and imposed by the curriculum puts in play the authorization of knowledges that are under dispute in the Landless discourse.

Along the same lines, the school practices described by one of the Landless, who was a teacher at the school, bring evidences of the struggle of particular knowledges of the MST for some space:

If, on the one hand, there are people who defend the importance of working with particular knowledges, as indicated by Fábio's speech, on the other hand, as shown in the teacher's speech, the authority of the disciplinary curriculum leads to the disqualification of practices that come closer to MST knowledges. It becomes clear that "human beings are not the unified subject of some coherent government regime that produces people in the way it imagines" (Rose, 2001ROSE, Nikolas. Como se Deve Fazer a História do Eu? Educação e Realidade, Porto Alegre, v. 26, n. 1, p. 33-58, jun./jul. 2001., p. 48). Instead, they are questioned by different practices that subjectivate them differently (Rose, 2001ROSE, Nikolas. Como se Deve Fazer a História do Eu? Educação e Realidade, Porto Alegre, v. 26, n. 1, p. 33-58, jun./jul. 2001.).

In this battlefield, re-signifying contents seems to be more acceptable than to include and exclude contents. After all, there were no objections to the classes that dealt with re-signifying school knowledges normally worked with, instead of including others, despite the fact that knowledges about Land Reform, with their contents against the latifundium, were not documented in the political pedagogical project of the two schools researched. However, these knowledges were particularly present in the Geography and Science classes observed.

In the Camp, when bringing into the scene the owner of the land occupied by the MST, demands for the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject are made available, while children are already beginning to make other compositions about this theme, as shown in the following dialogue.

Diego and Ivan show evidences of having understood the content worked with, distinguishing what is right from what is wrong, according to the discourse of the MST about Land Reform. By assessing the actions of the landowner, the pupils reflect upon ways of living, upon life choices, upon how they should guide their conduct. They demonstrate that they have learned the lessons of the discourse taught to them, being themselves at the same time products and producers of knowledges and practices. In so doing they assume the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject.

There is an epistemological power at work here. It is the power to "extract from individuals a knowledge, and to extract a knowledge about these individuals subjected to an outlook, and controlled by [...] different economic, political, and judiciary powers" (Foucault, 2009FOUCAULT, Michel. A Verdade e as Formas Jurídicas. Rio de Janeiro: Nau Editora, 2009., p. 121). The pupils noticed the teacher's approval of their comments, which seemed to get the children excited with the teachings. The teacher used this enthusiasm to bring forward a new content from the book.

The agroecological discourse assumes the centrality of the composition, without abandoning the discourse of the Land Reform, assuming that they complement each other. This discourse disseminates the idea that agroecology is a field of knowledge that "promotes the ecological management of natural resources through forms of collective social action [...], through proposals of participative development starting from the sphere of the production and alternative circulation of its products" (UFRGS, 2012UFRGS. Definição Elaborada por Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán. Disponível em: <http://www.ufrgs.br/agroecologiabr/conceitos_de_agroecologia.htm>. Acesso em: 13 out. 2012.
http://www.ufrgs.br/agroecologiabr/conce... , n.p.). Thus, the knowledge about chemical inputs made available in class is in opposition to the discourses of agroecology and of the Land reform, because agribusiness is commonly associated to the use of these inputs. Therefore, in the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject one needs to learn about these contents.

The partnership between these two discourses is assumed by the MST, as publicized in an article on the newspaper Ambiente Brasil: "the MST has given important contributions to consolidate the agroecological movement in our country, [...], when it approved in its 4^th National Congress conducted in Brasília agroecology as one of its main flags" (Ambiente Brasil, 2001AMBIENTE BRASIL. Agroecologia no Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST. Reportagem de Sandra Cristina Lins dos Santos. 2006. Disponível em: <http://noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/artigos/2006/12/11/28206-agroecologia-no-movimento-dos-trabalhadores-rurais-sem-terra-mst.html>. Acesso em: 10 out. 2011.
http://noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/ar... , n.p.). By seeing agroecology and the Land Reform as positive, the curriculum practices take position qualifying certain actions and knowledges and disqualify others. Disapproving the actions of the landowner, which in the MST discourse are associated to agribusiness, creates other meanings for the knowledges expressed in the textbook. A set of rules of conduct, either implicitly or explicitly, is therefore made available in the curricula investigated. Certain regime, that is to say, a whole art of living (Foucault, 2006bFOUCAULT, Michel. História da Sexualidade II: o uso dos prazeres. Tradução: Maria Thereza da Costa. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal, 2006b.), that may include bodily as well as moral orders is put into action and, in its turn, requires "a manner of problematizing behavior" (Foucault, 2006bFOUCAULT, Michel. História da Sexualidade II: o uso dos prazeres. Tradução: Maria Thereza da Costa. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal, 2006b., p. 93).

For example, in a campaign against the use of pesticides in which the MST took part, the scientific discourse was mobilized as a way to validate the knowledges made available by the MST. The Movement states that "pesticides cause a range of very serious diseases that affect rural workers, rural communities and the population in general, who consume food with toxic substances and develop many illnesses" (Ambiente Brasil, 2011AMBIENTE BRASIL. Agroecologia no Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST. Reportagem de Sandra Cristina Lins dos Santos. 2006. Disponível em: <http://noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/artigos/2006/12/11/28206-agroecologia-no-movimento-dos-trabalhadores-rurais-sem-terra-mst.html>. Acesso em: 10 out. 2011.
http://noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/ar... , n.p.). Alongside this text the image below is presented, clearly based on the medical/scientific discourse.

Figure 1
Campaign Against the Use of Pesticides

The demand for stopping the use of pesticides is validated by the medical discourse, which reiterates the assertion that they are harmful to people's lives. Other discourses validated by academia are added to declare, for example, that the use of pesticides is the result "of a set of political choices made by the country, which hark back to the 1960s" (Ponto de Pauta, 2011PONTO DE PAUTA. A Política Agrícola Brasileira e o Incentivo aos Agrotóxicos. Entrevista Especial com Flávia Londres. Disponível em: <http://pontodepauta.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/a-politica-agricola-brasileira-e-o-incentivo-aos-agrotoxicos-entrevista-especial-com-flavia-londres/>. Acesso em: 20 out. 2011.
http://pontodepauta.wordpress.com/2011/1... , n.p.), as stated by Flávia Londres, author of the book Agrotóxicos no Brasil: um guia para ação em defesa da vida (Pesticides in Brazil: a guide for action in defense of life).

In view of these statements, Geography knowledges seem to disseminate discourses from different fields - political, medical, environmental -, making available information that are not in textbooks and that are used by the teacher in the camp. The attitude of an anti-latifundium subject is required by the discourse of agroecology, which denounces agribusiness in a report on the MST website: "The expansion of this model of agricultural production is responsible for deforestation, poisons food and contaminates the population" (MST, 2011MST. Campanha Contra o Uso de Agrotóxicos. Disponível em: <http://www.mst.org.br/book/export/html/11494>. Acesso em: 20 out. 2011.
http://www.mst.org.br/book/export/html/1... , s/p)³³ 33 MST. Campanha Contra o Uso de Agrotóxicos. Available on: <http://www.mst.org.br/book/export/html/11494>. Accessed on: 20 October 2011. .

Such discourse is reiterated when a Landless woman says that "we have to invest in healthy food for school meals, with no pesticides. All we have to do is to buy products from our own producers" (FN, March 2010, n.p.). In this line of thinking, the Camp teacher asked her pupils Ivan and Diego if the poison used by the landowner was bad for the health. They promptly answered that it was, that it was healthier to use dung (FN, June 2010, n.p.). Thus, the curriculum makes available behaviors and practices desirable to the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject which, in its turn, reaffirms hallmarks of the attitude of an ecological subject. In such power struggles, what is interesting is "to interrogate the relations between economic and political structures in our society, and the knowledge, not in its true or false contents, but in its power-knowledge functions" (Foucault, 2007FOUCAULT, Michel. Microfísica do Poder. 23. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 2007., p. 118).

By making available in the school curriculum the attitude of an anti-latifundium subject, the Landless are then taught precepts that oppose behaviors linked to the latifundium, which are often associated to the disregard for health and to little concern with the population. By doing so, the MST also denounces certain policies that favor large landowners, such as, for example, the "tax exemption for pesticides in Ceará since 1997" (MST, 2012MST. Agrotóxicos Livres de Impostos Causam Problemas à Saúde. Disponível em: <http://www.mst.org.br/node/10603>. Acesso em: 10 out. 2012.
http://www.mst.org.br/node/10603... , n.p.)³⁴ 34 MST. Agrotóxicos Livres de Impostos Causam Problemas à Saúde. Available on: <http://www.mst.org.br/node/10603>. Accessed on: 10 October 2012. . Therefore, generally speaking, knowledges about the Land Reform disseminated in the curricula investigated establish opposition to ways of relating to the environment adopted by large landowners, and offer a different logic of care, in which actions, even individual ones, must guide themselves towards the collective good.

This and that...

What should then be taught/learned in settlement and camp schools of the MST? How to plant? How to work with computers? How to take care of the animals? How to use materials in a lab? Should they be taught how to work the land, or should they learn so-called universal contents? The duality of this or that seems to be fuelled by discussions about production in the curriculum of the schools studied here. The disputes, associations and discourse productions in the curricula investigated often bring the this or that to the surface.

As mentioned, the alternative knowledges introduced in the curricula studied were observed only in Geography and Science classes. In view of that, we might say that there is still some difficulty to separate the particular knowledges that they wish to teach in the MST curriculum from the knowledges already made official by the school. This fact demonstrates the strength of official knowledges. However, by putting into circulation discourses that require the attitude of an ecological, healthy and anti-latifundium subject, the Landless subject is delineated, required and produced. This subject is produced in the combination of several subject attitudes that are always recomposed, reorganized and recreated.

A set of attitudes are required from this subject. Its existence demands, in general, a critical thinking in the face of the situations experienced in their daily lives. A moral behavior is expected that cannot be reduced to mere obedience to a set of rules, since it also requires a relation of the subject with him/herself. "This relation is not simply 'self-awareness', but the constitution of oneself as a 'moral subject', in which the individual circumscribes a part of himself that constitutes the object of this moral practice, defining his position in relation to the precept he respects" (Foucault, 2006bFOUCAULT, Michel. História da Sexualidade II: o uso dos prazeres. Tradução: Maria Thereza da Costa. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal, 2006b., p. 28).

The subject attitudes disseminated in order to produce the Landless subject escape, however, from the precepts that try to determine choices for this or that in the curricula. Thus, the dispute about which knowledges should be regarded as more valid in the curricula ends up blurring a supposed dualism of knowledges: universal and particular, school and MST. A specialized knowledge about what is considered correct is constituted, putting into action moral systems of obligation and interdiction: this and that should not be done. This is part of the art of governing that "[...] is fundamentally linked to the discovery of a truth and to the objective knowledge of this truth" (Foucault, 2010FOUCAULT, Michel. Do Governo dos Vivos: curso no Collège de France, 1979-1980 (excertos de Michael Foucault). Tradução: Nildo Avelino. Rio de Janeiro: Achiamé, 2010., p. 46). In this way, one invests in the production of a "category of individuals also specialized in the knowledge of this truth" (Foucault, 2010FOUCAULT, Michel. Do Governo dos Vivos: curso no Collège de France, 1979-1980 (excertos de Michael Foucault). Tradução: Nildo Avelino. Rio de Janeiro: Achiamé, 2010., p. 46).

It is important to note, however, that the curriculum practices analyzed here, despite the fact that they do not propose completely distinct knowledges for the Landless, eventually produce an orientation and a different way of dealing with such knowledges. The speech of a Landless woman is illustrative: "the contents, they are made different with creativity" (Ribeiro, 2010RIBEIRO, Vândiner. Diário de Campo (DC) - Tese, Currículo e MST: relações de poder-saber e a produção da "subjetividade lutadora", 2010., n.p. - FN, March). Therefore, by changing the way of working with contents, by adding information and showing other ways of understanding them, processes of subjectivity are undoubtedly put in play, differentiated attitudes of subject are required, a distinct reasoning is made available.

It is also important to register that the relations of subjectivation are changeable, that attitudes of subject made available are sometimes not assumed, and that knowledges and powers resist conformation. Therefore, the objectives proposed are not always achieved, because resistances are produced, triggering "the insurrection of subjected knowledges" (Varela, 2002VARELA, Julia. O Estatuto do Saber Pedagógico. In: SILVA, Tomaz Tadeu da (Org.). O Sujeito da Educação: estudos foucaultianos. Rio de Janeiro: Vozes, 2002. P. 87-96., p. 93). After all, the field of curriculum has already shown that content and form are intimately articulated in the curriculum. If the form changes, it has effects upon contents (Paraíso, 1995PARAÍSO, Marlucy Alves. Gênero na Formação Docente: campo de silêncio do currículo? Cadernos de Pesquisa, São Paulo, n. 102, p. 23-45, nov. 1995.).

We should also remember that "the fact that a curriculum is universalist, or not universalist, does not make it, in itself, something to be repudiated or valued. There are problems that both kinds of curriculum can engender" (Santos, 2009SANTOS, Lucíola Licínio. Currículo: conhecimento e cultura. Seleção do conhecimento escolar: a construção do currículo. In: BRASIL. Salto para o Futuro. Currículo: conhecimento e cultura. Ano XIX, n. 1, abril/2009. P. 10-15., p. 12). In this way, trying to establish curriculum limits between particular and universal knowledges, even imaginary ones, results in conflicting strategies. On the one hand, it is convenient to bring into existence a differentiated culture within the MST, a fundamental step for the very survival of the Movement and strengthening of the group, as well as for the maintenance and justification of the existence of schools in the camps and settlements. On the other hand, seeking a unity and closure for the group around supposed specificities separates those on the inside from those on the outside, creating a distance that can be counter-productive with respect to the struggle for equality.

Nevertheless, establishing rigid curriculum limits does not seem to be strategically convenient to the Landless in this power-knowledge game. On the contrary, it seems more useful to the MST to have a conveniently organized transit between the different knowledges. Moreover, why should we not believe in the power and possibility of this and that acting together in the curricula?

Translation from Portuguese: Jessé Rebello de Souza Junior

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