The debate about the teaching of Sociology in secondary school, between the 1930s and 1950s. Science and modernity in Brazilian educational thought

• Autor(a) principal: Sarandy, Flávio Marcos Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/3389
• topic: Teaching of sociology; Educational policy; Educação básica; High school; Ensino de Sociologia; Política educacional

The educational speech of decades of 1930 1950 considered the science as the way of coherent understanding of the national reality and education, the main arena of intervention in social relations, therefore, an education geared for science in its guiding principles, in terms of educational policy and, internally, in terms of teaching and curriculum, and with the main content knowledge produced by the science itself, with views on democracy and the entry of Brazil in the capitalist modernity. The article discusses the importance of the teaching of sociology at the Brazilian educational thought from the linkage between certain variables such as “democracy”, “science” and “modernity”, and suggests that in texts of Florestan Fernandes, Costa Pinto and Antonio Cândido, for example, there is an association between a conception of democracy, a prospect that is to be studied social relations in Brazil and the prominence of education as a strategic project of modernization and democratic development rightly due to the formation of “skills” needed to Brazilian citizens, where the teaching of sociology at the high school took place of prominence for the project, in a context of effervescent break with a past taken by representative of our delay.