The notion of voluntary associativism of Alexis de Tocqueville appears in the historiography of the Brazilian education and is represented in this article in works that deal with to the protestant missions, the scout culture and the leagues against the illiteracy. The Democracy in related America" and to the available interpretations in the description-educational literature is understood from the workmanship "that approaches the organizational models foreign gifts in the Brazilian culture. The concept is distinguished in this text for the main intention of contribution to the studies developed under the perspective of the Cultural History whose subjects and problems if had extended with the methodological changes excited by theoretical concerns around the necessity of production of a history necessarily based in the some aspects of the life human being.