Abstract

MACHADO, Charliton José dos Santos; NUNES, Maria Lucia da Silva  and  MACHADO, Aline Maria Batista. “Cycle of Debats on Contemporary Brazilian Education”: conflicting positions on education at the Federal University of Paraiba. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.21, e064.  Epub Sep 13, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v21-2022-64.

Based on the theoretical and methodological notions of the New Cultural History, especially the History of the Present Time, the objective was to analyze the main ideas, communications and interventions, presented in the “Cycle of Debates on Contemporary Brazilian Education”, in 1979, in Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). The aim was to rescue the importance of this event, which, in the midst of the military dictatorship, confronted anti-democratic ideals in that period, and to highlight the role played by UFPB and the Education Center (CE), in the context in which in defense of amnesty and political openness were already foreshadowed. The main source of this study was the Annals of memory of the event, in 1981. The debates developed at the time covered since the basic education to higher education, and from a critical perspective they analyzed the obstacles and dilemmas that characterized Brazilian education in all its modalities, but also sought to point out alternatives and perspectives for changes. Therefore, it is understood that the event ensured a leading role for UFPB and the CE at that juncture.

Keywords : Cycle of Debates on Contemporary Brazilian Education; Federal University of Paraíba; History of Education.

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