Organize or die: Farm school pedagogy and the political ecology of the agroecological transition in rural Haiti. Issue 4 (8th August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moore, Sophie Sapp
• Is Part Of: Journal of environmental education. Volume 48:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 248
• Page End: 259
• Publication Date: 2017-08-08
• Subjects: agroecology -- decolonial -- political ecology; Environmental education -- Periodicals; 333.7207
• DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2017.1336977
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0095-8964

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article examines the political and pedagogical role of the farm school in Haiti's largest and oldest peasants' movement, the Peasants' Movement of Papaye (MPP). It draws upon ongoing ethnographic research with MPP as well as documentary and historical analyses of agrarian politics in Haiti to situate the movement's land-based decolonial political praxis in a political ecology of education framework, centering concepts of participation, conscientization, and autonomy. I use three key pedagogical principles in MPP's agroecological education program to illustrate the micropolitical processes by which smallholders negotiate processes of agrarian transformation: decentralization, social process methodology, and the good acroecologist model.