MEB e cidadania: um estudo da cartilha viver é lutar (1961-1963)

Abstract

The present writing expresses the studies, analyzes and discussions about Movimento de Educação de Base (MEB) and its Book “Viver é lutar”, a document responsible for the materialization of its emancipatory practices, aiming to understand how the lessons guided the subjects to conquer their citizenship. Therefore, to delimit the studies, the project aimed to analyze citizenship concepts presented in the lessons of MEB ́s Book “Viver é lutar”, in the context of the years 1961 to 1963 and to determine how this document guided the subjects to reach the citizen critical formation. The methodological ways considered the bibliographical and documental approaches, guided by the studies of decrees nº 50.370/1961, 52. 267/1963 and the Book “Viver é lutar”. The analyzes were based on the teachings of the following authors: Cremonese, (2007), Pereira, (2015), Pontual, (2011), Le Goff, (2003), Sharpe, (1992), Ventura, (2001), Wanderley, (2014), Santos, (2014), Alves; Tonnetti, (2021), Freire, (1989)) and others. In the movement remembrance sense, it is important to emphasize that even MEB being the result of the catholic initiative, its educational proposals walked in the direction of popular classes emancipation, because the 60's decade had marked a period in which the government, represented by people president, João Goulart, and the clergy had aligned their interests with social issues and, thus, had directed their practices to people favor. MEB marks, therefore, the history of 1960s by concretizing an educational proposal that embraced politics, envisioning that only through this link would be possible to achieve the conscience freedom of popular class. Thus, in the Book, the verb “esperançar”, as Paulo Freire (1989) well reminds, is structured through pictures and lessons that enabled the worker, MEB ́s protagonist, to recognize his exploited condition and then fight for the citizenship conquest.