Anísio Teixeira’s Experiences at Teachers College and the Quest to Foster Democracy Through Education in Brazil

Winter, Marcella

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“…He translated and discussed John Dewey's ideas and implemented education reforms in Bahia and in the Federal District. His work is the subject of an article in this special issue, written by Marcella Winter (Winter, 2022). 6.…”

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Professionals in Brazil, Students in the United States: Brazilian Women at Teachers College

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2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context: The article is part of a line of historical studies on training and improvement travels of Brazilian educators to foreign institutions. These studies have recently increased with the introduction of transnational history approaches. Purpose: This article discusses the training travels of seven Brazilian women, carried out centrally in the 1920s, and the impacts of these trips on their professional careers. Among these women were five teachers and two nurses. Research Design: Through historiographical research, personal and institutional documents are the primary sources to reconstruct their professional and intellectual trajectories. Documents from the institutions involved, particularly from Teachers College, Columbia University, were used, and documents belonging to personal collections, such as diaries, letters, and notebooks. Conclusions: The article gathers the intellectual impressions of the seven Brazilian women provoked by their teachers, colleagues, and experiences in the United States, especially the appropriations they made of their experiences abroad and at Teachers College in particular.

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Professionals in Brazil, Students in the United States: Brazilian Women at Teachers College

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2022

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“…Marcella Winter (2022) writes about one of the most illustrious Brazilian students at TC: Anísio Teixeira. After completing a degree in law and joining the school administration in his native state of Bahia without any background in education, Teixeira became interested in the field and received a master of arts in education degree from TC in 1929.…”

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Teachers College and the Rise of Public Education in Latin America

Cortina

2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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This special issue is the beginning of a much larger research project to document the impact of Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, on the development of public systems of education in Latin America and around the world. The articles presented in this issue are the work of scholars focusing on the educational careers of TC graduates who returned to Latin America, analyzing how these graduates' experiences as students in New York shaped their trajectories as educational leaders. It focuses on a highly influential initiative in TC's history, namely, the International Institute (1923)(1924)(1925)(1926)(1927)(1928)(1929)(1930)(1931)(1932)(1933)(1934)(1935)(1936)(1937)(1938), and its effects on Latin American education.In the fall of 2010, I was invited by Professor George Bond to make a presentation at the Lawrence A. Cremin Seminar and Lecture Series at Teachers College. I named my presentation "Teachers College and the Rise of Mexican Public Education." As I prepared it, my interest in learning more about the influence of TC abroad was awakened. For that lecture, I focused only on Mexico, but I started collecting research materials and learning more about the connections between TC and Latin America. In the articles that follow, you will be able to learn in depth about Mexico, Brazil, and Chile.The research process needed to create this deepening of perspective on the history of TC and on the development of public education in Latin America is complex, given that it is difficult to conduct research on the history of TC through its own institutional archives. The TC Archive was officially closed in the 1990s, and its staff members were dispersed or terminated. Besides materials still available at TC, the research supporting these articles is based on archives in the United States, as well as foundations, education institutions, TC alumni, and distinguished educational leaders' archives in their countries.The topics discussed in each article highlight the influence of TC on different schooling systems. Each of the articles focuses on alumni whose legacies are still pervasive in the schooling systems in their countries. Their conceptions about education

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“…He was one of the most active disseminators and advocates of the American progressivism in Brazil, translating Dewey’s works and supporting the usefulness of Dewey’s ideas in thinking about how to democratize education in the country (Nunes, 2000; Warde, 2005, 2015). Marcella Winter’s (2022) article in this special section analyzes Anísio Teixeira’s work.…”

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Columbia Teachers College and Educational Psychology in Brazil: Circulation and Appropriation

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2022

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Background/Context: In Brazil, the 1920s and 1930s were characterized by initiatives intended to reform public school systems at the state level. As in the case of both educators whose work we analyze in this article, Brazilian educators traveled abroad searching for experiences that could help them think about the modernization of education in their own country. Some, like Isaías Alves and Noemy Rudolfer, advocated for using psychological tests in schools as part of the change. They translated and adjusted the foreign tests, which were given to primary school students during the 1930s. Focus of Study: Our work deals with the experiences of two Brazilians who visited Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, in New York, in 1930: Isaías Alves and Noemy da Silveira Rudolfer. Both coordinated services of applied psychology when they returned to Brazil: Alves in Rio de Janeiro and Rudolfer in São Paulo. Research Design: Our work develops a historical analysis of the use of psychological tests in Brazil through the experiences of these two educators. Conclusions/Recommendations: Using Alves and Rudolfer as a reference this article intends to demonstrate the relationship that Brazilian educators developed with the American education theories. Along this process, TC was a significant space of mediation between the Brazilian educators and the American professors and authors. Although TC played a substantial role in Rudolfer’s and Alves’s work, both took different approaches to local conditions. In doing so, they produced another knowledge, showing some of the possibilities open to Brazilian educators when they looked at American authors discussed by TC professors.

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Anísio Teixeira’s Experiences at Teachers College and the Quest to Foster Democracy Through Education in Brazil

Cited by 3 publications

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Professionals in Brazil, Students in the United States: Brazilian Women at Teachers College

Professionals in Brazil, Students in the United States: Brazilian Women at Teachers College

Teachers College and the Rise of Public Education in Latin America

Columbia Teachers College and Educational Psychology in Brazil: Circulation and Appropriation

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