Brief notes on a marxist pedagogy

Abstract

Our purpose in this article is to trace a general picture of the historical-critical pedagogy, focusing on its main moments and features, in order to comprehend and to make explicit its essence. We take as object of our immanent reading some texts of the main founder of the pedagogical tendency in question, namely, the professor Dermeval Saviani. Although it does not constitute a scrupulous investigation of the already immense source of texts and practices regarding the historical-critical pedagogy, our contribution may perhaps help to visualize its shape and its guiding thread. Thus, although in a simple way, we intend to contribute to the publicizing and investigation of a very important pedagogic current in the disputes over the paths of the Brazilian education.