The anarchist trajectory of the educator João Penteado: readings on education, culture and society

Author(s)

Luciana Eliza dos Santos

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-04-28

Examining board members

Carmen Sylvia Vidigal Moraes; Francisco Foot Hardman; Doris Accioly e Silva

• Advisor: Carmen Sylvia Vidigal Moraes

Abstract

With the accomplishment of the libertarians schools in Sao Paulo, in the first decade of the twentieth century, this study insert the trajectory of anarchist educator João Penteado in the in the history of Brazilian education.. This educator was the responsible of the operation of Modern School No 1, created in 1912, as a model school, by a group of free thinkers, anarchists and anticlericais interested in the establishing a school separate from those prevailing at that time as the state and religious, with the target privileged means popular.This school, like many others libertarians schools, was inspired by the experience of the Catalan educator Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, who created and founded a Modern School in Barcelona, in 1901. The social trajectory of Penteado, seized in the search historiographic documentary primary sources, is marked by cultural and educational practices deeply rooted in libertarian ideals, becoming visible in his thought the consistency of design of the world over the years. To highlight some of the reasons of this educational perspective with bases on historical antecedents of the brazilian educational field adds new elements in the discussion on shape school. Thus, the meaning and social function of contemporary school may be asked - and reflected by a revolutionary vision of human relations. (AU)