‘Men who taught America to read’
adult education in Brazil and Mexico (1947-1956)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4025/rbhe.v21.2021.e155Keywords:
adult education, Jaime Torres and Lourenço Filho, adult literacy campaigns, Unesco, CrefalAbstract
This text aims to analyze the relationship established between Jaime Torres Bodet and Manuel Bergström Lourenço Filho, in the adult literacy campaigns in Mexico and Brazil, which culminated in the holding of the VI Seminário Interamericano de Alfabetização e Educação de Adultos in Brazil in 1949. It is, therefore, an investigation about the circulation of ideas that guided adult education in Brazil and Mexico, at a time when Mexico was placing itself as a successful reference for all Latin America, above all, due to the experiences carried out by the Unesco, OEA and Crefal. Regarding the theoretical and methodological options, it is a work based on Connected History, taking as sources: newspapers, magazines and photographs. Finally, it can be concluded that the relationship between these men was constituted in the campaign to eradicate adult illiteracy, carried out in their respective countries by Unesco, which resulted in the holding of congresses and, consequently, in a vast intellectual and didactics on the topic
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