From Revolution to Coup

Gramsci and Public Education - Thoughts on the Brazilian Experience Book Description British educator Timothy D. Ireland is an academic who knows and explains very well Brazil and Latin America, where he has lived since 1979. This monographic work, published in 1987, deserves to be read with its original perspective and theses, despite all the time that has passed. Ireland discusses the concepts of public education and adult education through class, historical and political analyzes of Italian and Brazilian examples. Ireland, who concretizes his approach within the framework of Gramsci's basic concepts (hegemony, organic intellectual, party, common sense, war of position, passive revolution, etc.), uses rich data, historical realities and political actors (political party, politicians, educators, etc.) to public education. In the book, public education is analyzed comprehensively and at a macro level rather than a technical supplementary education or literacy issue. Compared to Italy, the concept and phenomenon of public education in Brazil, Liberation Theology, military coup, class struggle, political coalitions, communist parties, civil society, liberal views, oligarchic circles, import substitution industrialization, rural-urban migration, working in the informal sector, It is processed within the framework of many parameters such as capitalist mode of production, poverty, popular classes and Machismo. According to Ireland, a native Latin American approach to adult education has emerged since the early 1960s through the efforts of many public educators, especially Paulo Freire. Although Latin America is under the influence of various approaches such as "community development", "lifelong education" and "non-formal education" produced in the USA and Europe, "Popular Education", which it has developed in its own way, is an education system for those who cannot find formal education opportunities. It is a real solution for the popular classes. (From the Promotional Bulletin)