Education and spirituality: two important elements to be considered in participative development processes
International Journal of Development Research
Education and spirituality: two important elements to be considered in participative development processes
Received 03rd December, 2018; Received in revised form 08th January, 2019; Accepted 26th February, 2019; Published online 31st March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Ângelo Altair Oliveira and Ancelmo Schörner. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This present paper presents a study conducted in 2017 and 2018 about the participative development experienced by landless rural workers settled in the Rio Bonito do Iguaçu municipality, in the state of Paraná, in Brazil, from 1996 to 1997. Methodology consisted on studying interviews conducted through Oral History methodology and written sources from the time, such as newspaper articles and official State documents, which were interpreted based on similar research projects and concepts from various theorists. It was concluded that two aspects were fundamental to the success of the participative development process studied herein: the educational work developed by leaders with the people involved and the appreciation of the group’s spirituality as a propelling element.
