Education and Culture: The Federation of Organizations for Social Assistance and Education (FASE) and a Popular Education Project in the Tocantina Amazon – Brazil.

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the arrival of the Federation of Organizations for Social Assistance and Education (FASE) and its partnership with the Catholic Church in the Amazonian region of Baixo Tocantins, focusing on the Vila de Porto Grande, Cametá – Pará (PA). This is an action research study whose corpus of analysis comprises memorialist works, oral narratives, and texts made available by FASE on its institutional website. Theoretically, the research is affiliated with Social History and Critical Pedagogy, enabling readers to understand the importance of the practice of Oral History with social commitment, which led this study not only to engage with memory, but to understand it as a form of historical and political resistance. In concluding this study, we highlight the importance of FASE in the daily lives of rural, riverside, and forest workers, particularly in the training, education, and capacity-building of these subjects during dictatorial times, encompassing social, cultural, health, agricultural, and political aspects in the Baixo Tocantins region, part of the Brazilian Amazon.