About the contemporaneity of Os bruzundangas (and the modern school)

Abstract

 Looking at some sociocultural aspects of contemporary Brazil, one can see a disturbing resemblance to the fictional country of Lima Barreto’s work a century ago. This manuscript seeks to undertake a critical analysis of educational aspects, relating to the period of the current socio-political-economic situation to which Brazilians are subjected at the beginning of this century, as well as the Bruzundangas, at the beginning of the last century. Barreto exposes social and ethical ills of a society that, on closer examination, has little changed. To reach these conclusions, theories of contemporary education-oriented scholars such as Toffler (1970, 1980), Morin (2003) and Bauman (2000, 2010) were used, based on the analyzes of Maingueneau (2010). By promoting the critical reflection of the current period, the news was based on the experience of the facts in media devices. In establishing this proposal, we seek to highlight sociocultural trauma crucial to understand the current society and the Brazilian educational system. The final considerations present incompleteness and inconclusive diagnoses of a complex, continental, multicultural and racist country, which has changed little or nothing in relation to the ethical posture of society.