Anísio Teixeira and the “right to education”: ideas that remember Dewey and inspire Freire

Abstract

This article deals centrally with the issue of the right to education, with the main author Anísio Teixeira, who took on the problem of defining inequalities in the social roles historically attributed to Brazilians, resulting in privileges. In this phenomenal order, education is committed to mirroring this state of injustice, a fact that could be relaxed by strengthening the quality of public school promoted by a renewing pedagogy. In John Dewey, Teixeira was inspired by the ideas of progressivism and encouraged to promote the necessary transformations from an archaic society to another modernizer. Paulo Freire dealt with similar problems, but suggested a pedagogy that could free individuals from oppressive conditions, whose school mechanism of banking education contributed to the achievement of domination. We saw connections between these authors who intended to boost development through innovative pedagogical actions. We based on the works of these intellectuals that allowed discussion, deepening and connections between the right to education and democracy.