Abstract

CA, Lourenço Ocuni  and  CA, Cristina Mandu Ocuni. Public policies in education in Guinea-Bissau: a historical overview. ETD [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.88-106. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.2592/EDT17N1A20150106.

This paper aims to document and analyze the educational structures left by Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau. The analysis is done through performance evaluation of successive periods that were part of educational history. In this analysis, there is the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Portuguese State in the implementation of civilizing mission overlapping an oral culture by European written culture. In this sense, the colonial education, the Catholic Church played a key role in the Guinean docile. The church not only helped in the implementation of educational policy and participated in the legitimization of Portuguese colonialism, sanctioning and sanctifying the civilizing mission and historical function of Portugal. Therefore, the church was responsible for the education of indigenous and its condition for the state of assimilation and the Portuguese State for the education of children of assimilated.

Keywords : Colonialism; Education; Assimilation; Indigenous; Catholic Church.

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