Goianos educators’ protagonism in the fight for education in the 1980’s

Abstract

This article discusses the movement of goianos’ intellectuals during the 1980s, in order to present their actions as fundamental to the events that redefined the provision of the Pedagogy course. From the analysis of books and legislation, as documentary sources, it is presented how the reflections that took place at the III National Meeting of Education Supervisors (III ENSE) guided the organization of education workers in opposition to the proposal of the military governments regarding specializations in the Pedagogy course. Substantiated on the historical-dialectical materialism assumptions, the analysis focuses on the practice of educators as organic intellectuals in defense of workers and against the hegemony of defenders of rationalization and technics applied to educational processes. Finally, we intend to emphasize the commitment of the teacher Ildeu Moreira Coêlho in the debates that led to what would later become the National Association for the Training of Education Professionals (ANFOPE).