Abstract:
This article addressed the study of educational thinking by a representative of New School in Portugal, António de Sena Faria de Vasconcelos (1880-1939). From 1912, the author ran a school founded by himself in Bierges-Les-Wavre, an experience characterized by contemporaries as one of the main actions of application of renewed principles in education. In an early stage of his production,from the beginning of the century to the 1920s, the emphasis is on the discussion of the active method, what Faria de Vasconcelos prefers to call self-government. From the theoretical-methodological point of view, the study is part of the perspective of the history of mentalities. The methodological procedures adopted are the reading and analysis of the complete works of the author, taking this documentary corpus in parallel with his contemporaries.
Keywords:
teaching methods; history of education; philosophy of education; school culture