A estrutura da escola: uma perspectiva multidimensional

Abstract

EditorialThe school´s structure: a multidimensional perspective Writing an editorial is always a challenge. Selecting articles to be included in the issue of an academic journal turns out to be a provocative exercise for those in charge of this task. It was no different in this case. A variety of texts were selected which, at first sight, seemed unrelated. The heading above, however, made the endeavor easier. Present in one of the articles in this issue, the comments recorded here translate with clarity the connection between the texts here collected. Its author, Helena Antipoff, was an educator who lived and worked in Brazil in the last century, and has left a series of teachings in which she values the learning of learners, including the democratic principles of autonomy and cooperation.On the other hand, a careful reading of the reflections, in the perspective of Antipoff´s precepts, allowed us to see that all articles also deal with the complex nature of school. This is not a novelty. For long, we have been aware of how abundant are the relations that are woven within the wall of this institution. Antônio Candido, in his classical text A estrutura da escola (The structure of the school), first published in the 1950´s, had already drawn our attention to such reality.