A contribuição do pensamento de Anísio Teixeira para a formação do cidadão democrático na sociedade brasileira

Abstract

This essay aims to investigate the fundamentals of Brazilian education with a pretension to educate for democracy, through the thought of Anísio Spínola Teixeira. The bibliographical review deals with some life and work aspects of Anísio Teixeira, which are necessary for the understanding of his studies. Education for citizenship and democracy, concepts that guide the educational system idealized by the educator are discussed. In an educational inequalities discriminations, injustices, thoughts and dominant actions scenario, Anísio Spínola Teixeira fought for the guarantee of a public, universal and free school, understood by him as an essential condition for democracy. Anísio is also presented as the idealizer of the integral education, which stresses the inseparability between education and life, providing the necessary conditions for development in an integrated way. In this sense, the writings of Anísio are still currently worth of being visited and studied by the policy makers for the Brazilian educational system, by the managers, teachers and researchers of the school education in the country, once the democratization project of the Brazilian public school has not been yet fully materialized, and more and more, there is the perception that the education is the way to citizenship.