Abstract
Driven by questionings concerning the interests of the State in the implementation of education systems, we intend to cover some historical facts of the libertarian education and to present the tensions around its organization in Brazil in late 19th century XIX and early 20th century. Next, we analyze the developments of libertarian thinking in certain contemporary education practices, highlighting the conceptual bases of these experiences anchored in the concept of self-management. Finally, we problematize on developments around the concept of self-management as postulated by libertarian thinking, and we analyze how neoliberalism and religious conservatism capture this concept, which can be identified in homeschooling propositions, along with an extension of this thinking which is the school without party bill and all the political and social movements insisting on the regulation of this education modality in Brazil.
Keywords:
libertarian education; self-management; neoliberalism; homeschooling; no indoctrination