Abstract

FONSECA, Thaís Nivia de Lima e. A more open school and the shaping of Brazilian citizen (1930- 1960). Educ. Rev. [online]. 2005, n.41, pp.43-57. ISSN 0102-4698.

The process of exteriorization of the school in Brazil, occurred between 1930 and 1960, is considered an educational strategy for the moral and political formation of the ideal of citizen required for the development and modernization of the country at that moment. The powerful state intervention in the educational system was sustained by the most modern and representative pedagogical trends in the western education, which were adopted to legitimate and to consolidate a civic and patriotic education. By doing so, the Brazilian: state empowered the school to be an agent and place for the formation of the students and teacher moral and political principles.

Keywords : Civic Education; School; Civic Ceremonies.

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