Nas trilhas de um polesmita, um educador: a contribuição de José Nascimento Moraes para o debate sobre Educação nos primeiros anos da República

Abstract

The present text in monographic format intends to make a biographical analysis of the journalist, writer and educator, José Nascimento Morais. So based on your life trajectory in the social environment. Through Moraes' paths in the various aspects of life, he thinks of himself as the protagonist of his own history, but also of understanding his life as a follow-up of a larger context of which he was inserted. Nascimento Moraes was born in 1882, close to an era marked by various conflicts, instabilities and significant changes in the national context as the end of the Empire and the beginning of the republican period (1889), as well as the slave regime (1888). In this sense, it is intended to reflect on the possibilities of Brazilian education in this area, between the construction of the institutional character of public education and the consequences reflected in society. Through the periodical newspapers, among other sources, cover the content produced by the biography to elucidate their activism as an intellectual production in what concerns the Brazilian Education. So put it in the condition of producer and interventionist of its own reality.