Becoming Family Farmers: The Contribution of the Existential Ontological Perspective to the Social Learning for Sustainability Theory

Marcia Juliana d’Angelo, Janette Brunstein and Jones Madson Telles
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Marcia Juliana d’Angelo: Management Department, Fucape Business School, Vitória 29075-505, Brazil
Janette Brunstein: Postgraduate Program in Administration, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo 01302-907, Brazil
Jones Madson Telles: Management Department, Fucape Business School, Vitória 29075-505, Brazil

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-20

Abstract: This research examines social learning for sustainability (SLfS), particularly in its social dimension. Few studies have discussed or advanced on the ontological issues of SLfS relating to who social actors are becoming. This study aims to describe and analyze how the process of SLfS facilitates Brazilian families who were at the base of the social pyramid (no income) to change the status from landless campers to family farmers with land moving up four levels in the social pyramid over a decade. The research is qualitative interpretative, based on narratives from semi-structured interviews with 16 social actors and document analysis. The results show the meaning of learning professional ways of being family farmers from an existential ontological perspective.

Keywords: social learning for sustainability; the base of the pyramid; family farmers; ontological perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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