TO LIVE IS TO FIGHT: POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE DIDACTIC COLLECTION FOR ADULT LITERACY OF THE BASIC EDUCATION MOVEMENT

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the contents and material aspects of the primer “Viver é Lutar” – “Living is fighting”, published in 1963, which was part of the didactic collection of the same name prepared by the Movimento de Educação de Base – Basic Education Movement – to support adult literacy classes in the context of Brazilian radio schools in the early 1960s, in view of the political context of the Brazilian dictatorial regime (1964-1988) and the repression of social movements aimed at adult education. It is also to observe the effort to bring elements of popular popular culture as a didactic-pedagogical strategy to generate identification with the peasants served by the movement, bearing in mind also the different intellectual and ideological tendencies in dispute within the Catholic Church mobilized in the construction of the material, related to their political, pedagogical and religious conceptions, which resulted in their own model of education for peasants. Finally, we approach the process of restructuring the MEB in the context of the dictatorial regime that, according to recent historiography, took place through processes of accommodation to the regime, the consequence of which was the reorganization of its pedagogical principles and the removal of militants from the more radical wings.