ABSTRACT
This article seeks to analyze the intentions and shaping devices of Rural Education Missions inspired directly by the Mexican governmental program for Cultural Missions of Education, started in the 1940s. Such experiences were carried out in the context of the economic development project of these countries based on the dissemination of the streamlining work for rural areas and deepening the experience of habits, attitudes and values characteristic of urban-industrial spaces. The Rural Education Missions were organized in Brazil between the years 1950 and 1951 in the form of a pilot experience that came to unfold in subsequent years in support of initiatives of the same nature adopted in other rural locations in the country. Both the Mexican and the Brazilian initiatives aimed at transforming the rural communities in which the Missions were carried out in centers that radiate a new pattern of economic, political and social living based on associations and the creation of spaces for organizing political life at the local level.
Keywords:
Brazil; Mexico; Cultural Missions; Rural Missions; Rural education