Editorial

Abstract

In Brazil, the year 2015 ended under the impact of a powerful movement of secondary students, who, in an unprecedented manner in the country, occupied their schools to fight reforms imposed by state governments, first in Sao Paulo and then in Goiás. Defined in the offices without public debate, and guided by the logic of economic rationalization, these reforms met students' creative opposition force, to the surprise of rulers, administrators and economists. In the day-today of the occupations, students cooked, cleaned, painted, and took care of their schools. But they also reinvented school education by promoting activities, workshops, debates, and conversation circles on topics of their interest, and by constructing numerous forms of expression, which ranged from diaries to musical composition, from videos, posters, and murals to plays, drawings and graffiti. With this, more than occupying school buildings, students occupied the imaginary of social movements and particularly of educators, rekindling hopes. The issues raised by this movement to political life and public education in Brazil will undoubtedly still take time to be properly debated.