Labor and Workers in Brazil

Título

A concepção de politecnia em Moçambique: contradições de um discurso socialista (1983-1992)

Educação e Pesquisa

Autor

António Cipriano Parafino Gonçalves

Assunto

Concept of Polytechnic education

Concepção de educação politécnica

Estado-nação moderno

Frelimo

Modern nation-state

Mozambique

Moçambique

National Education System

Sistema Nacional de Educação

Abstract

The work analyzes the grounding of the concept of polytechnicalism in Mozambican education, according to the political project proposed by the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO), which defended the establishment of a socialist nation in that country. Defined in the official documents as a translation of the pedagogical principle of the connection between theory and practice, between school and work, polytechnicalism should permeate the whole process of schooling, and aimed at giving students the basis to understand reality, assimilating scientific knowledge, and transforming nature and society. In terms of methodology, the work comprised a theoretical survey of the literature on the emergence of the concept of polytechnicalism, and the understanding of this concept in Marx and Lenin, as well as in the Russian workers movement. Official documents, articles, books, and the results of related research on the Mozambican "socialist" education were also investigated. In its empirical part, the study included interviews with intellectuals that were involved with Mozambican education during the period in question (1983-1992) in the city of Maputo; these interviews were conducted between January and March 2005. From the analysis of the data collected and interviews carried out, the study allowed the conclusion that, firstly, there is a difference between the grounding of the conception of polytechnic education as it appears in the Mozambican pedagogical proposal, and those of Marx or Lenin. Secondly, that the understanding of the concept of polytechnicalism in Mozambique was limited, and that the socialist discourse that attended Mozambican education was contradictory.

volume

33

issue

3

Páginas

601-619

Date

2007-12

título curto

Educação e Pesquisa

Língua

pt

doi

10.1590/S1517-97022007000300014

issn

1517-9702

uri

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-97022007000300014&lang=pt

Publisher

SciELO Brasil