Abstract

LIMA, Eliene Barbosa. Omar Catunda: fortunes and misfortunes of a cultural dowel. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.48, pp.445-465. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/dialogo.educ.16.048.DS09.

In this article, without any biographical intent, I do an analysis of some elements that influenced the thinking and actions of Omar Catunda to develop an educational system capable of raising the culture of the Brazilian people. For him the only sure instrument to turn Brazil into a fully independent nation, in that it would achieve material progress and spiritual. For this, I use mostly his autobiography. This analysis has as initial cut the 1930 Revolution, understood by young Catunda as a landmark for the construction of a nation towards progress and continuing until 1986, the year of his death. I argument that Catunda did sought to sow the high culture through education, but while drinking from a foreign culture, was foreign in their own country.

Keywords : Mathematics; History; Omar Catunda; Culture; Education.

        · abstract in Portuguese | French     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )