Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais (Jul 2007)

O debate acerca do ensino de Sociologia no secundário, entre as décadas de 1930 e 1950. Ciência e modernidade no pensamento educacional brasileiro

  • Flávio Marcosandy Silva Sarandy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2007v12n1p67
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 67 – 92

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The educational speech of decades of 1930 1950 considered the science as the way of coherent understanding of the national reality and education, the main arena of intervention in social relations, therefore, an education geared for science in its guiding principles, in terms of educational policy and, internally, in terms of teaching and curriculum, and with the main content knowledge produced by the science itself, with views on democracy and the entry of Brazil in the capitalist modernity. The article discusses the importance of the teaching of sociology at the Brazilian educational thought from the linkage between certain variables such as “democracy”, “science” and “modernity”, and suggests that in texts of Florestan Fernandes, Costa Pinto and Antonio Cândido, for example, there is an association between a conception of democracy, a prospect that is to be studied social relations in Brazil and the prominence of education as a strategic project of modernization and democratic development rightly due to the formation of “skills” needed to Brazilian citizens, where the teaching of sociology at the high school took place of prominence for the project, in a context of effervescent break with a past taken by representative of our delay.

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