A luta pelo direito à educação na periferia de uma metrópole brasileira em tempos autoritários (Baixada Fluminense, anos 1970)

Abstract

The aims of this article is to analyze the conditions in which the experience of school education in the Baixada Fluminense materialized as well as the struggles for the right to education for the majority of the population of this region, in the historical context of the passage from the 1970s to the 1980s. This historic moment was marked by the political distension and crisis of legitimacy that characterized the final years of the dictatorial regime established after 1964. A press vehicle with local circulation was chosen as the privileged source of the research: the newspaper O Correio da Lavoura. The mobilization of families living in the Baixada Fluminense in the historical period in question shows that the right to education is considered fundamental in the context of the realization of real citizenship for the Brazilian population as a whole, particularly for those who have in schooling process the only way to access better living conditions for their daughters and sons.