The general confiscation of the body, of time, of life: emancipating and forming brazilienses, brasilianans, brazilians

Abstract

How did Brazil’s independence process come about? What links were established between the projects of nationhood and the education of the population? What initiatives were taken to consolidate the edu
cation of the people in the complex national experience? As we are constantly and permanently called upon to think about the processes of emancipation and autonomization and their relationship with the projects of train ing and educating populations, in this article I return to these general questions in order to examine aspects of
the planetarization of the so-called “Mutual Teaching System”, its circulation and forms of implementation on national soil. With this resource, I try to show training projects and the type of emancipation they embody, but also the problems and contours they present. In this way, thinking about a post-independence training system, articulating some initiatives aimed at schooling, offers a certain framework for problematizing the transnation alization of the pedagogy of mutualism, which implies recognizing the complex networks of power relations in emancipated Brazil and the debates involving divergent interests with regard to the urgency and need to educate brazilienses, brasilianans, brazilians.