A contribuição do Movimento Brasileiro de Educação – MOBRAL para a educação de adultos no Brasil no período do regime militar

Abstract

This monograph seeks to recover the history of the Brazilian Literacy Movement – MOBRAL and the social context in which it took place. Established by Law 5.379 on 15 th December 1967, the Movement only began its activities on 8 th September 1970, in the midst of a wave of “pedagogical enthusiasm”. Created during the Military Dictatorship, it suffered harsh criticism for promoting the government’s ideology. As we consider MOBRAL as the most significant mass literacy programme which has existed in this country, we set out to analyze the contributions which it made to Adult Education during the time of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil, bearing in mind the innumerable attempts already realized to eradicate illiteracy. As part of our research we carried ou a bibliographic study of authors who had either participated in or researched MOBRAL with a view to analyzing and understanding the real contributions of MOBRAL to Adult Education, whilst not ignoring the criticisms directed at the programme during its existence.