IN THE TROPICALY OF THE EXCLUDED AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT IS CONSOLIDATED: The Proletarian School of Merity and its model of education (1921-1964).
Keywords: Baixada Fluminense; New school; Regional Teaching, Proletarian School of Merity, Armanda Álvaro Alberto.
This dissertation aims to investigate the creation, trajectory and consolidation of the pedagogical, political and educational project of the Proletarian School of Merity between the years of 1921 and 1964. A barn of experiences and revolutionary ideals, in which it is born in 13 of February 1921, in the heart of the Baixada Fluminense, in the village of Merity, today Duque de Caxias (RJ). It is in this tropicália, under the direction of Armanda Álvaro Alberto, a signatory of the Education New Pioneers Manifesto, an educator who was part of the National Liberation Alliance (ANL), the Brazilian Association of Education (ABE) and the Brazilian Women's Union (UFB) , which along with several intellectuals and collaborators, implements an innovative education system in that locality, uniting education and health, thus strengthening body and mind. The Proletarian School adopting the methods and references of Escolanovismo embark on regional teaching as a parameter of teaching and actions for their practices in daily life, serving as a pedagogical reference for other school institutions in Brazil and Latin America. Offering to its students free lunch, fruit of several donations of local residents and their own school garden, in which their students participated actively, from planting to harvesting, ends up being affectionately recognized in the region as Mate School with Angu. The project in its original form ends at the end of the year 1964, for not accepting the incorporation of the same in the state education network of Rio de Janeiro, because it is a "school of communists".