Democracia, ditadura e histórias da educação do tempo passado/presente

This book meets repeated suggestions and requests from graduate students, master's and doctoral students and colleagues from different universities regarding the need for compilation, the sequence and the convergence of themes, at the end and after all, produced by the same path of research that many call “stories and memories of popular education”.
I prefer to embed these writings in what I characterize as “the history of education in the present time”, aware of the paradigmatic issues that impacted our history and our educational historiography. From the considerable volume of writings resulting from the researches carried out and in progress, we selected the parts that composed the chapters of the book.
In the first chapter, the basis for the rest, we argue about the history of the present time, its assumptions, its abundance of sources and its decisive importance for a new epistemology of education. In the second, we selected historical aspects of Brazilian educational policy, before and after the 1964 civil-military coup, in the populist state and in the military state, especially regarding the education of young people and adults. Then, in the third, we return to a theme that is still recurring today: the João Goulart Government (Jango), the intended reforms, the conciliation made impossible by the coup d'état on duty and the very incongruities and disabilities of the government and its representative. In the face of a pre-announced and ongoing coup, would there be ways out that would maintain fragile democracy? Was the blow inevitable and inexorable? In the fourth chapter we explore one of the applications of the so-called “Paulo Freire Method” of literacy by the Popular Education Campaign (CEPLAR, 1962-1964), in Paraíba, the military coup and the documents of the Military Police Inquiry (IPM) unleashed by the IV Army against its main leaders between 1964 and 1969. Next, we show CEPLAR's “dangerous connections”, considered subversive by the 1964 coup d'état, which ranged from the cultural incursions led by Paulo Pontes to the links with the Peasant Leagues of Paraíba. In the same 1960s, two more programs were developed in Paraíba: literacy on SIREPA radio and the reaction of the Basic Christian Action Crusade (ABC) against the “Paulo Freire Method” (and its legacy) - as part of politics educational system of the Military State implanted after April 1964 and that would end at MOBRAL. The stories and memories of SIREPA and Cruzada ABC constitute the sixth and seventh chapter, respectively.