ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to associate two perspectives of the Nonpartisan School (Escola sem Partido — ESP) movement: as a political event taking place in the field of the history of the present time, specifically immediate history, and as an expression of cultural practices related to more enduring situations in the history of Brazil, for example censorship and authoritarianism. We argue that, although placed in the sphere of civil society relations, the ESP attempts to institutionalize a type of school control within the Brazilian state that, since the approval of the Constitution in 1988, has prohibited the exercise of any type of censorship. As a theoretical and methodological framework, we will use the history of the present time and the renewed political history.
Keywords:
Immediate history; Brazil; Nonpartisan School; Censorship; Civil society