State and education. The Society of Jesus: Brazil, 1549-1600

Abstract

The article aims to show the need to review the historical
approach of social relations prevailing in the sixteenth century,
adjusting the concepts used to understand how they developed. It
has as the object of study the meaning of education in Brazil in
the sixteenth / seventeenth century. First we explain the
representation of the world then in place, the order putting itself
as the unit / universe, the concept of body delineating the society,
the divine presence formatting understandings. Then we defined
education as assimilation of this form of representation of the
order. Finally we describe the work of the Society of Jesus,
delegated by the king to the mission of evangelization of the
Indians, showing the college and the studies as active expression
of that education