Society transformations, education transformations: the catholic-conservative project of the education on the decade of 1920

Abstract

On the XXI century the Brazilian education persists in centralization of national concerns, conspicuous fordegradation of the teaching system and for the last positions that Brazil places in practically all analysis, whichit is subjected. There's something to detach that the most curious proposals appear as a definite solution of theBrazilian education problem, typical, in the history of Brazil, of agitation moments and transformations inother social globes. On the perspective of the education " crisis situation", stimulated for the other areastransformations, this article tries to reveal an important moment of the Brazilian educational trajectory: thedecade of 1920, when the educational thematic stands as the center of the national discussions, combinedwith the final context of the First Republic. During this term, the catholic initiative, centralized in Jackson deFigueiredo, rested on the education to realize its deceleration program of the history. The target is to understandthe use of education to defend of the Conservative-Catholic ideal, on behalf of the order and of the catholicintellectual elite formation that, through superior teaching, looked for systematize and unite the diehards,freely facing the transformations gamma that operated in several social sectors that moment.