O PENSAMENTO EDUCACIONAL DE CECÍLIA MEIRELES

Abstract

This research proposes to investigate the participation of Cecilia Meireles in the constitution of Brazilian educational thinking. The trajectory of formation and intellectual participation of the author in the Brazilian political-educational-artistic scene was traced, especially the period from 1920 to 1940, when the author produced the texts that will serve as primary sources, "Chronicles of Education ". From the examination of these chronicles, we approached questions related to the conceptions and ideas of education that she defended, the contributions that her acting as intellectual-educator offered for the change in the way of thinking of Brazilian education, the trajectories covered and the resources used by It to spread such ideas and achieve proposed goals. As a methodological procedure, we opted for the History of Intellectuals, starting from the methodological premises of linguistic contextualism and the analysis of the intellectual profile of the author supported by the concept of organic intellectual of Gramsci. The author's educational thinking was approached from the established categories: convergences and divergences, enthusiasm, pedagogical and critical optimism, maturation and propositions. Cecília Meireles here will not be the same known by many as the famous poetess, who spread our language through so many countries and enrolled in the list of the most important poets in Brazilian literature. We will discover in this work the woman, educator, opinion formator, combatant journalist, courageous and concerned with the educational problems of the Brazilian people, who fought and defended with great bravery and critical reflection their ideas and ideals of education.