A contribuição de Florestan Fernandes para o ensino de sociologia e para a educação no Brasil

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the Florestan Fernandes contribution not only to the teaching of sociology, but also for the Brazilian education. To do so, the article is divided into 3 parts. First comes the sociologist Florestan Fernandes, who was born in a humble family, son of a Portuguese peasant who emigrated to Brazil at the age of thirteen, he had to leave school and work early to help the family. But his life turns to the waiter job at a bar where encouraged to study finishes high school and starts his studies in the course of Social Sciences at USP, where it becomes a sociologist and university professor. In the second part of the article deals with the political Florestan that as a militant and later deputy, he defended education for the masses and free public schooling. He fought for a quality education, democratic and fair for all children and young people of the country, regardless of social class, as well as the inclusion of sociology discipline in high school. Finally seek briefly analyze the sociology discipline in Brazil and its mishaps for the consolidation of its obligation in high school, as well as the participation of Florestan Fernandes in the process. After all, if today the discipline of Sociology is present in every year of high school, much is due to Him. He who even can "reap the fruits" of his personal victory, he decided to counteract individual merit and fight for a society more fair and democratic, a school that would make all students real citizens, and to his credit a discipline that contribute to such - Sociology.