Abstract

MARTINAZZO, Celso José; SILVA, Sidinei Pithan da  and  LUFT, Hedi Maria. The originality of Darcy Ribeiro’s (1922-1997) diagnosis and criticism on education in Brazil. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.2, pp.481-495.  Epub June 05, 2020. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v19n2-2020-12.

Darcy Ribeiro, a distinguished Brazilian anthropologist, educator and politician, is recognized for his concern with the indigenous issue and his struggle to defend a public and democratic education. In his writings, we can find references to the Latin American reality and to the participation of Indians, blacks and mestizos in the process of formation and socio-cultural development of the Brazilian people, in which he mentions very well the historical causes that are at the genesis of the levels of development and inequality in Brazil. Our focus in this text is to make explicit the diagnosis and criticism of Darcy Ribeiro in relation to education and the Brazilian public school, taking as main reference his book Our school is a calamity, written in 1984, in which it analyzes the situation of education and of the Brazilian public school at the end of the 20th century. From the author’s provocations, we sought to consider the advances and setbacks of the current Brazilian education in relation to the problems presented at the end of the 20th century.

Keywords : Darcy Ribeiro; Public school; Democratization of education.

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