Viver é lutar: a proposta didático-pedagógica do movimento de educação de base (1961/1966)

Abstract

This work arose from the interest in investigating the pedagogical practice of the Movimento de Educação de Base (Base Education Movement) - MEB, in the years 1961-1966, having as its main focus the reading book Viver é Lutar, which was used during the repurposing of the Movement’s goals.In the early years, the MEB was directed to the confessionality, and after two years of experience, turned to literacy as a practice of freedom, associating their ideals with the awareness, attitudes's motivation and tools for action.Thus, the movement that has Catholic roots and governmentalist started to invest in the education of the working classes, with the help of lay people who showed involved with the social needs of the disadvantaged, providing a new look at the educational interests, now focused on the transformation of oppressed subjects, in the context that preceded the civic-military dictatorship.This research aims to understand the pedagogical-didactic proposal of the MEB in the period 1961-1966, analyzing the principle of awareness inserted in the reading book Viver é Lutar, basing itself in writers on the theme of Educação de Jovens e Adultos in 1960, as well as documents and reports of the MEB.For such studies, a literature research was done on the context of the Educação de Jovens e Adultos in the early 1960s to the beginning of the dictatorship period, intertwining with the MEB from reflections with several authors like Beisegel (2010), Favero (2006), Freire (1981a, 1983b, 1993c, 1995d), Teixeira (2008), Ventura (2001), among others.These studies have allowed new ideas and a new look for the education of youth and adults, realizing that at some point in history these subjects exceeded the inertia and conformism, through education as practice of freedom, that would allow them to intervene in social life, assuming actions modeled on a critical view of man and the world.Upon completion of this work, it was understood that the lessons in the reading book Viver é Lutar were thought to reframe the experiences of disadvantaged populations.