Abstract

DIAS, Kamila Gusatti; CAMARGO, Kênia Guimarães Furquim  and  ALMEIDA, Maria Zeneide Carneiro Magalhães de. A dreaming idea or a dream to be built? Anísio Teixeira and the Brazilian education project. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.56, pp.307-324.  Epub July 22, 2021. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v26i56.1420.

The purpose of this text is to highlight relevant aspects of the life and work of Anísio Teixeira (1900-1971) and especially to investigate the decisive moments of his biography, his motivations as an educator, as well as the aspects of his appropriation of John’s ideas Dewey and the actuality of his conceptions to think contemporary Brazilian education. The theoretical contribution is based on bibliographic research, which can offer us subsidies to understand the trajectory of the author’s intellectual thought for the realization of a Brazilian education project. Anísio Teixeira was one of the proponents of a movement of enthusiasm for education and a pedagogical optimism, led by the intellectuals who advocated the free and secular public school expansion. The driving force of the Anisian work in the field of education was based on education as a right of all, not only of the elites, and never as a privilege for the few. We hope that this inspiration, known here as a fearless idea or perhaps a dream built by it, can propel us to believe in a truly equal, democratic, and, above all, quality public education. Anísio Teixeira dreamed and, in his dream, he saw an efficient school for the Brazilian people and it is for this purpose that we still fight for it.

Keywords : Anísio Teixeira; life; work.

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