Fazendo-os obedecer: moralidade, educação e trabalho nas politicas do IPES para a juventude brasileira durante a Guerra Fria

Abstract

Following a group of conservative Brazilian intellectuals linked to the Superior War School of the Armed Forces of Brazil, the Catholic Church, the National Defense League, the Brazilian Scouts Association and the Social Research Institute, an organization founded in the early 1960s who played a key role during the 1964 coup and was influential in formulating policy for the dictatorship. I analyze the role of these intellectuals in spreading ideas about youth and in promoting authoritarian modernist policies. I argue that these intellectuals built a moral agenda that guided youth-oriented policies in Brazil. I explore conservative proposals such as the extinction of the UNE (National Union of Students), the creation of the University Movement for Social Development (MUDES), the preparation of teaching materials, the attempt to reintroduce religious teaching in public educational institutions, the creation of the discipline of Moral and Civic Education in high school and Studies of Brazilian Problems in universities, the creation of the National Council of Moral and Civics, the influence of these intellectuals on the 1969 university reform, and the formulation of a business-centered educational approach that united the market and development, the attempt to control youth.