Educação e revolução social nas páginas libertárias: a circulação do conhecimento pedagógico anarquista europeu no Brasil nas primeiras décadas do século XX

Abstract

The present scientific research investigates the circulation of European pedagogic knowledge in Brazil among the first decades of the twentieth century. To do so, it builds initially a conceptual definition of Anarchism, as an ideology, and relates the anarchist movement with Education, announcing its theoreticians still in the nineteenth century, and showing the relation between those with concepts later on used by pedagogues and practitioners of the libertarian ideas in education. In the first part of the paper, we do a historiographicaldiscussion of the studies about anarchism in Brazil and about the lack of libertarian pedagogy in the History of Education “manuals”, problematizing also the question of “pedagogical tendencies”. In the second part, some dear principles to the libertarian tradition in education are defined, as: the integral instruction, the antiauthoritarian teaching and the education-revolution binomial. We present the educational ideas of classical authors of anarchism, like Bakunin, Kropotkin and Reclus, but also of the pedagogues Paul Robin and Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, both responsible for the expansion of the rationalist and libertarian teaching through all the workers movement in several countries. In its third chapter, we investigate the circulation of the libertarian thought in Brazil, showing the anarchists initiatives in educational projects and relating them with international projects. We discuss the importance of the worker press to the expansion of the libertarian education, and put the role of the educational experiences of anarchists in Brazil, like: The creation of libertarian schools, culture centers, the opening of libraries, edition of books and the opening of dozens of magazines, including newspapers dedicated especially to education, like the newspaper O Início, created by students of the Modern School of São Paulo (Escola Moderna de São Paulo).