Estudo sobre a produção de saberes dos educadores das Escolas do Lar Antonio de Pádua: dialogando com Eurípedes Barsanulfo

Abstract

Given the uniqueness of adoption experience, undertaken by the couple Fernando Melo and Anália Bueno, which became a complex educational work, located in the cities of Fortaleza and Pacatuba, Ceará, operating in a self-sustainable way for sixty-three (63) years, this research captured the production of knowledge of the educators of the aforementioned work, Lar Antônio de Pádua, based on the dialogue with the thoughts of Eurípedes Barsanulfo, who inspired the work, the foundation of a spiritist pedagogical vision (Incontri, 2010, 2012). Using the methodology of oral history (Le Goff, 1992), the geopolitical scenario of the time is situated, and, in this discursive field, we also reflect on public policies for adoption and educational assistance to children and young people in situations of social vulnerability. The research had as theoretical support the works of Kuhlmann (1998), Sen (2000), Fonseca (2006), Rizzini and Pilotti (2011) and DelPriori (2021); as well as Paulo Freire in his five pedagogies: the one of the oppressed (1987 ), hope (1992), autonomy (1997), indignation (2000) and tolerance (2020); also, Pestalozzi (1969, 1985), Montessori (2019), Piaget (1932) and Yves de La Taille (2006), Bighetto (2007), Amui (2018), Melo (2013), Linhares (2001, 2017 a, 2017 b); the basic works of Allan Kardec and those on the life and work of Eurípedes Barsanulfo, particularly Novelino (1991) and Silva (2017). Anchored in the understanding of child as a social subject and in an emancipatory praxis of education, the value of spiritual dimension of the educator was seen. As a conclusion, we also found in the work of Lar Antônio de Pádua, the evidence of the movement of autonomy, cooperation, love, art and work as educational principles supporting the work. It was found that the spiritualist educational work of Lar Antônio de Pádua anticipated public policies over the State, since the time of its creation. It was detected that the production of meaning with Eurípedes Barsanulfo inspires the work in the three educational spaces of the institution (which today serve around a thousand children and young people). It stands out, as a conclusion of the research, that the institution of Lar Antônio de Pádua <bursts= (Mannoni, 1986; Mesquita & Martins, 2018) and this is the greatest link with Barsanulfo?s experience, that is, the work expanded to the surrounding communities (as Barsanulfo did at Colégio Allan Kardec), with early childhood education in Ceará work, reaching the complexity of art and craftsmanship, supported by the adult work of the production units embedded in the work and which self-sustain it.