The Anarchist Militancy through relations maintained by João Penteado Survival strategies after 20s

Author(s)

Tatiana da Silva Calsavara

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-05-24

Examining board members

Carmen Sylvia Vidigal Moraes; Cecilia Hanna Mate; Esmeralda Blanco Bolsonaro de Moura; Doris Accioly e Silva; Antonio José Romera Valverde

• Advisor: Carmen Sylvia Vidigal Moraes

Abstract

This job aims to rescue the militancy of the anarchist educator João Penteado after the closing of Belenzinho Modern School, in 1919 seeking traces of continuity of libertarian practices until then, present in daily life. Outside the school environment, teacher João Penteado maintained friendly relations and militancy with libertarians as Rodolfo Felipe, Edgard Leuenroth, Pedro Catalo, Adelino de Pinho, José Oiticica and others which can be verified in letters exchanged between them that often refer to the importance of maintaining the school run by João Penteado as important part of the process of anarchist militancy resistance at a time of intense repression and surveillance of the authorities and the police. The issues raised by the anarchist militancy from the closing of the modern school relate to changes experienced by workers in the social and political context of the period (either local or worldwide). At the moment there is a significant production of works with libertarian content, even though there were only \"space for the study of the dominant classes.\" Through the course of John Barbour, we intend to identify, therefore, the forms of resistance of their group in this period of crisis, the issues involved, and how this resistance is present in the idea of education that they defended. (AU)