A contribuição de Lima Barreto para o entendimento da crítica educacional brasileira do início do século XX

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Silvana Fernandes [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs/index.php/srh/issue/view/969/showToc; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122316
• topic: Brasil; Educação; Ensino Superior; Educação na Literatura; Brazil; Education; High Education; Education in Literature

This study aims at enhancing the understanding of the educational criticism in the beginning of the twentieth century, focusing on the ideas of Lima Barreto. Before the emergence of the "educational professionals", educational thought was developed by publicists and writers involved in a fertile debate, the results of which became visible in literary and journalistic production. Through the analysis of articles, short texts published in the press, novels and short stories written by Lima Barreto, it’s possible to gather a specific concept of education, underlying his criticism and fictional characterization of school education, as well as an interesting sketch of the cultural profile of Brazilian society at the time. Either explicitly or implicitly, in their evaluative and theoretical references, the limits of the critical readings of the author, which are expressed in the contradiction between negation of the given conditions and their affirmation, unveil the historical aspects of social and educational thinking and criticism.